slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: yearly wrap-ups
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My annual round-up for the year of the time warp. I didn’t post much this past year, and honestly, it will probably fall even more to the wayside this year. I realize that social media has become more of my journal. However, a lot of it is that I just can’t face much reality anymore.…
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I decided to write my yearly wrap-up here and copy it to Substack, since it’s part of a set, so to speak. I didn’t write nearly as much on the blog last year – much of what was in my head was related to grief and writing on that subject doesn’t come easily to me.…
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I’m post-dating this blog to December 31, 2022, but I’m writing it on January 8, 2023. I had some heavy grief at the end of 2022 and ongoing…so I wasn’t up for writing much then. So I’m going to try to focus this morning on the past year. Looking over the 2022 blog posts today,…
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According to WordPress, this is my 1600th published post. While that is a bit hard to believe, the number is actually higher because I deleted a lot of posts when I transferred the blog from GoDaddy to WordPress.com. How long can I keep going? I guess we’ll see. Reading over my blog posts from the…
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Well, there won’t be anything exciting in this post, as you might guess. But it is a tradition for me. In January, I only posted once, on New Year’s Day, with my aspirations for the year ahead. Of course, nobody could see what was coming. Sandy retired on Dec. 31, so this was his first…
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2019 – the slowing of the slow. Just as it went last year, I have spent a lot of time in and out of major depression. So some things went to the wayside that I had big plans for, like this blog. I won’t say that they won’t still happen though. I did manage to…
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2018 had its charms. I was in much much better physical shape than in 2017 but spent about six months in a serious depression. I am starting out 2019 with much less physical and mental pain, and I have regained some lost hope. In January I decided to weave a tapestry diary and I was…
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One great thing about writing these wrapups is that I always see that the previous year was busier than I thought, or better than I thought. I did manage to write at least one post every month. I tried to stay away from political commentary, just because I am so sick of it and there…
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A lot of people are happy to see 2016 go. Yes, it was a very stressful year for almost everyone, but I am quite fearful of the next few years so I’m not ready to let 2016 go yet. However, I don’t have much choice, do I? So here’s my annual wrap-up blog post. “Save…
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2015 was a very full year. Although I feel like I didn’t blog that much, I realize that I did write about the big events, and as usual, found that there were more of those than I realized. We traveled a LOT. From January to March, I wrestled with my new-to-me Shannock tapestry loom until…
slowly she turned 