Looking forward

Hi people 🙂 A happy post for a change. I'm feeling good! I have been so down for so long. All the heaviness of the past few years just heaped up on me and I was so weighed down I couldn't get up. There is obviously a situational basis for my misery - I had …

Displaced and Virtually Homeless

I did a bad thing, and I got banned and blocked from a social media site. That's never happened to me before. I shouldn't care, but I cried all evening and stayed up way into the night trying to sort it out. I'm not mentioning any names, because I don't want for them to find …

Hope Deferred

We've been in the housing association accommodation now for just over a year, and I think that, on reflection, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that - even allowing for some of the awful things that happened in the past - this past year has been the worst year of my life. I used …

Your Desire Shall Be for your Husband

I have been contemplating my relationship with my husband recently. It is pretty good now overall but we have had our fair share of ups and downs, and for years I resented him - not because we had had miscarriages, of course that wasn't his fault, but because he had decided, despite knowing that I …

No More Grumbling!

As I have told you, times are challenging at the moment for us, and I have been feeling very discouraged. But this week's Torah portion, Beshalach, features the topic of grumbling quite prominently, and so I am encouraged to put a guard over my mouth and my virtual pen, to only 'speak life'; in other …

Roundup of the Summer

I just thought, as the sun is streaming in where I am sitting and brightening my spirits, that I would do a quick (ha! Sorry it got long!) roundup of what's been happening to me over the summer. I've been very quiet, I'm sorry. I have noticed a pattern of becoming ill just as the …