John Guthrie's Ready Room

Kindness Journey Notes

It has been just over a month since I decided to embrace Kindness and make it the guiding principle of my life. I rejected all of the anger and frustration that was consuming me. I was at a dangerous point, I couldn’t hold a conversation on certain subjects because

It Must Be Tuesday

Tuesdays have always seemed a bit strange to me. Everyone else dreaded Monday, but when I was still working, Tuesdays were the barren wasteland left over from Monday. Since I’m not working anymore due to my health, I haven’t thought about this as much. Today, however, I read

Dwindling Hope

I have followed the news about the submersible that has gone missing near the shipwreck of RMS Titanic. While many questions must be answered, my main focus is sympathy for the families of those who are missing. There will be plenty of bale to go around once the submersible is

Nothing Changes Just By Wishing

I keep starting and restarting my blogging habits. I created my website/blog to control what happens there without outside interference. I feel free and nervous at the same time. A writer on Medium who I have the utmost respect for https://link.medium.com/LdMzs3eyKAb He understands the struggles

It's the simple things

Saturday was the first day I went outside after all the air quality issues. It was nice to be out with Hal and to go around places we hadn’t seen before. Even a quick lunch at McDonald’s was worth the trip, and it reminded me of how important

Our Babies

My Music

I spend time every day listening to music. Music takes me away from the tumultuous world we all live in. I often find myself just taking a dose of Fuckitol and putting my headphones on to drown out the world around me. I have several pairs of headphones, and I

Story from The Atlantic By Peter Wehner

IDEAS MORALITY IS FOR TRUMP WHAT COLORS ARE TO THE COLOR-BLIND The majority of his enablers, though, still know right from wrong. JUNE 18, 2023 Earlier this week, Donald Trump was arraigned in Miami on charges that he willfully retained documents containing some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets

The Outrageous Cost of a Movie

Hal and I were out the other day and after some lunch and shopping, I decided to stop by our local movie theater. Worst decision ever. We have several streaming services here at home, but silly me, I thought it would be nice for us to see a movie in

Reminiscing

Hal and I talked to an old friend last night for almost two hours. We hadn’t spoken with him like that for far too long, and it felt so good to catch up with him. We talked about our various maladies since we’re all getting older, probably not

Hello There

Greetings from Willow

Every day is #Caturday

Henry being Henry

Finally Feeling Like I’m in Control Again

If you’ve read my stories recently, you’ve heard me talk about profound changes in my life. Things were getting so much better, but I felt like a leaf caught in an Autumn windstorm, flying everywhere. Every time I tried to settle down, I felt caught up in the

Kindness Rocks

A few days ago, Hal and I went to the grocery store to stock up on necessities. I have a handicap plate on my car, so we park near the door. I finished shopping before Hal, so I went to the car and waited for him. While I waited, I

Monday, Monday

I started this post yesterday and then lost interest. I guess that sums up Monday perfectly for me. I saw this old picture of Henry taking it easy, and my mood was determined. I hope that this procrastinated entry doesn't hurt anything.

What are Republicans Doing For The Nation?

Every day we hear of new Republican attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community, women, minorities, Democrats, and anyone else that Republicans don’t like. I started wondering if there was anything other than attacking people; what were the things the GOP has done for this country in the last two years?

When Will I Learn?

I have written a blog for more than 15 years. Sadly, I had long lapses in the past, but I always came back. I wish I were a better writer, but I write from experience, and to put it bluntly, my life was more complicated than most. There is a

And the Negativity has Started on Medium

I haven’t written much on Medium recently. I’ve been under the weather and just lacked the energy and focus that writing requires. Apparently, a lack of activity sets off some algorithm somewhere that opens the floodgates for negativity. The last several comments made to me have fallen directly

Why I can’t stand my extended family -part 4

I’m going to close out my stories about my extended family with this last episode. Once again, I was a child, I cannot remember if this happened, but it was between 1972 and 1974. My memory isn’t sharp on this for reasons that will become clear later in

Why I can’t stand my extended family - part 3

About 4 years after the family reunion disaster https://medium.com/@dreamer9177/why-i-cant-stand-my-extended-family-part-2-e4f8856513ff, one of my Mom’s brothers, not the one with the Winnebago, called Mim out of the blue less than a week before Christmas and wanted to bring his family and share the holiday with us. Mom

Why I can’t stand my extended family -Part 2

After my first experience with my Aunt Gladys mentioned in https://medium.com/@dreamer9177/why-i-cant-stand-my-extended-family-f402ecdbefa1 I wanted to fast forward a year to 1972. There was a film that all us kids thought was the best thing ever called “The Doberman Gang” about criminals who trained a pack of Dobermans

Why I can’t stand my extended family

A friend on Medium said that I should write stories about my extended family. Here is background and the first example of a fucked-up extended family. I am an only child of two wonderful, loving parents. I wish the story ended there, but everything goes downhill. First, a but of

National Donut Day? WTF?

As if Americans aren’t already obese enough, now we’re subjected to “National Donut Day,” which was obviously the aborted brainchild of some 350-pound internet food porn junkie, waiting to haul his ass out of the basement he lives in. Once he recovers from that exertion and from the

Dreamer's Ready Room #1 - Security Blanket

My website project continues. I am learning as I go, but I am not trying to do everything at once because I don’t want to get frustrated and quit in anger. I have all the time in the world to learn and do this right. I have wanted to

First Ghost blog post

This is my first Ghost blog post using their editor on my website. I find this is an excellent writing tool that is paired with my website. Grammarly is integrated into the editor, so there is no cut-and-paste to get things done right. I think that the Ghost editor will