Category Dreams

The Write Stuff

March 29, 2024 · by · in Breadcrumbing, Career, Dating, Dreams, Life, Love, Middle Age, Women, Writing · Leave a comment

I’ve dedicated my life to writing, in all its forms. I was a copywriter. Then I wrote magazine articles. That led to short stories, this blog and then fiction. My job involves writing with strict deadlines and sometimes, too much input from those that don’t know what they’re talking about. Alas, there’s also my dating […]

Transitions

April 8, 2022 · by · in Coping, Dreams, Life, Self-esteem, Women · Leave a comment

No, the above picture isn’t me. But it seems to be a characterization of a woman of a certain age…although, I’m not certain what her age is. I had a big birthday a little while ago. I turned overnight from a middle-ager into a senior citizen. How can that be? I don’t feel any different. […]

The Jitters, Or, The Nightmares Cometh

January 16, 2022 · by · in Birthday, Career, Children, Coping, Depression, Dreams, Family, Mid-life Crisis, Middle Age, Self-esteem, Women, Writing · Leave a comment

It happens every now and again. Sometimes I have a bad day at work. Or a mistake I made that I can’t let go. Something’s looming on the horizon and I obsess about it. Or my brain simply won’t shut up, no matter what I do or try not to dwell upon. It’s a case […]

Dream Life

June 27, 2021 · by · in death, Dreams, Family, Home, Middle Age · Leave a comment

I’ve been getting weird lucid dreams lately. Really weird. Take, for example, last night. I dreamed that my mother – gone for a number of years now – was lying on her bed in our old house, looking quite youthful. I’d say she appeared to be in her 40s. She propped up her head on […]