About

Banner Update: The new banner on my pages is a stormy Mississippi sky at sunset. We see too many of these in the spring, but they remain beautiful. Sadly, the photo hasn’t caught the full beauty.

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Born a Southerner, raised a fundamentalist Baptist, educated in Bible college, further educated in seriously non-Bible university, I’m a mixture of traditional and experimental. Call it eclectic.

I’m a fully disabled 50-something who has been a newspaper journalist, photographer, junior high teacher, management wonk, college professor, columnist, homeschool teacher, writing teacher, knitted hat creator, horse rider, dog lover, cat co-exister, painter, potter, writer, poor seamstress, even more poor housekeeper, poet, workaday cook and in the privacy of my own mind, a dancer.

I’ve been manic depressive since about high school age, as near as I can recall. I finally learned the name of my personal demon in the mid-90s and have been in an ongoing struggle with it since. I’m married for 26 years and have a 23-year-old daughter who is, like many recent college grads her age, unemployed. But she makes beautiful original origami jewelry. http://ravencrossing.etsy.com

My blogging tends to be sporadic because of the depression, which has drifted into roughly a monthly cycle, so apologies in advance.

And that’s about all you need to know about me. Welcome.