April Is Upon Us IWSG

 

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Good Day to you all. Today this post will be very short. Hope you all have a wonderful spring-filled April with lots of flowers and good rain...

A little Madness in the Spring  

by Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the Spring

Is wholesome even for the King,

But God be with the Clown -- 

Who ponders this tremendous scene --

This whole Experiment of Green --

As if it were his own!

Please go and visit our amazing co-hosts this month and thank them for their support...

Jennifer Lane, L Diane Wolfe, Jenni Enzor, Natalie Aguirre!

April Showering Me With Kindness & ISWG

 

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Please visit our co-hosts this lovely month of April: 

Janet Alcorn, T. Powell Coltrin, Natalie Aguirre, AND  Pat Garcia!

I'm starting out my post this month with the IWSG information because I love how important it is for me to be a part of this blogging community. I don't post as much as I should, but I love being here and how it keeps me humble, and keeps me tuned in to the "writing internet crowd." And even though I've been sent to the back of the line twice (!), I'm still hanging in here. My answer to this month's question is...

How long have I been blogging (Or Twitter, Instagram or Facebook)? What do I like about it and what has changed? 

I've been blogging since at least 2011. SOOOOO much has changed since I started and I find it a mixed bag. I gave up on Wordpress, because it wasn't the right fit for my brain. If I had someone else blogging for me I'd us it, but it was too much of a pain back then and I haven't tried it again in a very long time. I'm no longer on X/Twitter at all. I just can't do it. Instagram and FB are where I usually spend my time when doing social media. Even they are getting on my nerves. Not so much FB because I really keep up there with the special people in my life that I can't see every day. I pay no attention to anything else. Instagram never lets me just see the people I follow. If it did that, however, I'd be on it toooo much so maybe that's a good thing! Once I get back into marketing my novels I'll do a lot more on those platforms, and possibly TicToc but for now, I'm happy doing what I'm doing. How about you?

We recently got our little furbaby groomed for the first time. Not just bathed, but a whole new haircut and he looks like a new dog! Never seen him this way before and I like it. I liked the way he was with his long hair as well, but it was getting to be a real mess to deal with. What do you think? Like the new cut? The old? I like them both!

I have decided to enter one of my unpublished (but edited professionally) novels in a contest. Wish me luck? I'm very nervous about this because it's the first in a trilogy and if it doesn't go well...? I'm terrified!

Before...

After! We didn't want his face changed much, so I think she did a good job.

Saddest April Ever and IWSG

 

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I missed yesterday because we had to let go of our little furry bundle of love, Boney, and I couldn't handle anything. The loss is overwhelming. The grief is there, then gone, then back again. No way to control it. No way to make sense of it. No clarity. Just empty space. A hole. My eyes hurt. My heart is so broken I don't know how to fix it yet. I "know" time will help. But right now nothing does. I try to tell myself that people in Ukraine have it sooooo much worse than I do. But I relate to their grief and loss even more than I did before. My pain is real. Not to be diminished by others also in pain. This is what I tell myself. Nothing helps. I took off work this morning but will go back this afternoon. I will be brave. I will do what I must. I will not be able to not think of Boney, so I will let the tears come as they will and do the best that I can.

Bonaparte (Boney) May 15, 2012 - April 6, 2022

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Please go and visit those awesome co-hosts who have volunteered for April!

 Joylene Nowell Butler, Jemima Pett, Patricia Josephine, 

Louise - Fundy Blue, and Kim Lajevardi!