If Once You Have Slept On An Island

If Once You Have Slept On An Island

If once you have slept on an island
You’ll never be quite the same;
You may look as you looked the day before
And go by the same old name,
You may bustle about in street and shop
You may sit at home and sew,
But you’ll see blue water and wheeling gulls
Wherever your feet may go.
You may chat with the neighbors of this and that
And close to your fire keep,
But you’ll hear ship whistle and lighthouse bell
And tides beat through your sleep.
Oh! you won’t know why and you can’t say how
Such a change upon you came,
But once you have slept on an island,
You’ll never be quite the same.

~ Rachel Lyman Field
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Of course I am thinking of Mackinac.
Published in: on September 4, 2013 at 11:10 pm  Leave a Comment  

Finally!

Finally made it to Mackinac Island this year. We went last week-end and stayed at the Grand. We had 2 beautiful rooms with balconies and lovely views of the Governor’s Mansion, the Fort, lighthouse, and the Straits. Even got to enjoy the pool this time, yay!! Did not want to check out. Here are a few of our formal pictures before dinner:

Grand Hotel Dinner

Just me

Me Chuck Bridge

Grand Hotel Dinner 2

My husband looks good, doesn’t he? –Especially for having a heart attack and 4 stents put in 2 weeks prior to these pictures. This week-end we shall attempt to walk the Mackinac Bridge 🙂

Published in: on August 31, 2013 at 11:58 am  Leave a Comment  

Learn something….

Learn something new everyday. Today I learned the word, concept, and phrase:

paracosm.

Article: The Possibilities of Fiction

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reality-play/201308/the-possibilities-fiction?tr=HomeEssentials

 

paracosm

 

I used to do this when I was a child, in fact me AND my imaginary friend Baby had our own little paracosms. Ha! They weren’t too brilliant but we had them.

Never knew it had a name though. Now I know…

So if you need me I will be in my paracosm.

Published in: on August 5, 2013 at 1:20 pm  Leave a Comment  

A Writer’s Soul

woolf quote

Published in: on July 30, 2013 at 11:16 pm  Leave a Comment  

Dreaming my dreams…

I couldn’t sleep (sick again-yuck!), got bored with Facebook and my Kindle so I started dreaming…I have a dream, one I have had for a long time and this morning I made a plan to turn my dream into reality. I don’t want to put it out there yet, don’t want to jinx it or anything; I just wanted to remember this morning and my plan. I will make it happen, I am determined.

launching a dream

Published in: on July 27, 2013 at 7:21 am  Leave a Comment  

An Outrage!

Child support law ‘outrageous’

Child support law ‘outrageous’

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/target_8/lawmaker-calls-child-support-law-outrageous

Yes, child support laws definitely need an overhaul. It is only what I have been saying for years now, not to mention the multitudes of men who have complained of it for generations. Of course nobody listens to them because they are just ‘bitter’ and/or are ‘deadbeats’. No, men have been getting screwed over by child support laws and the FOC for too long now and they have just had to take it because the judicial system is biased in favor of mothers, or the motherhood myth. Terrible!

RANT:

Too many mothers get away with too much BS:

Too many mothers are deadbeats, but perhaps not in the traditional sense. Too many mothers trying to make fathers out of men that either are not truly the father or aren’t ready to be yet– and the men do not have a choice in the matter. Too many mothers get away with BS and living off their KIDS money or financing THEIR own (the mother’s) dreams and wants off money designated for them to care for their children.

Too many mothers are allowed to pass off the responsibility of raising and supporting (financially and otherwise) onto others. I don’t know why– is it because they think just giving birth is enough? Too many mothers think everyone owes them for their decision, their choice to have children; that they ought to be paid for giving birth and raising their own children.

Too many mothers do not want to do the hard work and to have the responsibility that comes with children but they expect from the men they choose to procreate with.

Too much unfairness, too many double standards; too much deceit and myth-making.

Published in: on July 26, 2013 at 11:36 am  Leave a Comment