My life has been torn apart leaving my 20yr marriage. I had been violently taken out in handcuffs, accused of breaking things and throwing things around the room, as the Police bullied me about being “crazy!” I had slammed a door or two during my 20yr marriage, but never what appeared to be broken furniture…

Settling into my new apartment, the 6th difficult move in the past couple years, after being homeless on and off the past 5yrs, I realized I’m certainly not the 48yr old that had started this new phase of my life—Midlife! I didn’t celebrate the big Five O, like I had thought and read about in…

I have to catch up with myself. It’s been 2yrs now since I posted here after being forced to YWCA in 2024 after being homeless on and off for 5yrs. There have been 6 moves since then and I’m now in Center Square, Albany NY. It’s true what they say as a sought after neighborhood…

Stockade ~ Schenectady, NY Photo Credit: Rhonda J Flanagan

It’s one of those days; you know when you remember a time that at that time you wanted to forget, but you can now say; I got through that and it’s not great now, but like they say today –“ You got that!” I missed writing here and my few followers that helped me to…

It’s been a while since writing, my fingers stiff and cumbersome. A Fall breeze slowly moves in, my new sheer curtains gently moving, swaying to the sunlight dancing across the landscape of the backyard to my new studio. It feels like meeting an old friend again. I listen to old 1970s music and one of…

Morning walk in the Stockade, Schenectady, NY.