The Benefits of Oregano

Oregano (Scientific name: Origanum vulgare) is also known as Wild Marjoram, Mountain Mint, Origanum, Wintersweet and Winter Marjoram.

Jun 18, 2025

I Get It Why People Give In to the Darkness

There was a time in my life when I couldn’t feel anything. Not sadness, not love, not joy, not hope. Just a vast, echoing emptiness. And in that emptiness, the only thing I could feel was fear. Not fear of the world or other people. Not even fear of death, really. It was fear of myself. Fear that one day, I’d stop fighting the intrusive thoughts. Fear that I’d stop flinching at the images in my mind. Fear that the version of me who moves the scissors,...

Mar 28, 2017

March 9

My father passed away last March 9. It was weird how they told me. They asked me to come over to my parents house, deliberately failing to inform me that he was already gone. I felt weird though, like I knew that Daddy going to the hospital was a very bad sign. After all, if they had to call an ambulance, it didn't bode well for him.  And how many times can a person escape death really. Daddy had escaped death three times. And I was afraid his luck was all spent up. When I got there everyone was waiting for me outside the house. And then...

Jul 20, 2016

I Read Your Flickr Comment 10 Years Later

I just read a comment on a Flickr photo which someone left 10 years ago. It was filled with  hatred and vitriolic language. The person who left the comment really hated me - and of course, I know only one person who feels or felt like that. I also know I never did this person wrong. I just had - and still have - what this person desperately wanted. The one who left the comment probably didn't realize that what she said wouldn't hurt because first off, none of it was true. Secondly, her opinion - especially when stated "anonymously" - doesn't...

Aug 14, 2015

Musings at 6 am

I miss writing.Oh, I write. I do. I do. I get paid for every word that I type, every sentence that I create. I suppose that counts, but I don't write from the heart. I get paid for writing about things I hardly care about.I miss writing.&nb...

Sep 18, 2014

My Life

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