This is me.

  Every so often I do a “Who I am and where to find out” kind of post.  This is one of those.  If you don't want to read, but want the links to my life, page down and you'll find them.

I am a writer.  I am an artist.  I am a teacher.  I am a believer.  I am a designer/builder.  I am a gardener.  I am a chef (homebased).  I study and grow herbs for my own health sake and share them, when I have abundance, with people who ask.  I am a wife, mother, sister, daughter, aunt. 

  I have a dog and a cat and a large aquarium with two fish because one of those doesn’t play well with others and it has an amazing long life span, it would seem. I encourage lots of birds to hang around with some winter feed outside my door because I love birds and find I don't like cleaning up after them.  

  I love outdoor activities but am not a huge fan of discomfort and personal injury.  I’m a conservationist who still has the bulk of my brain and reasoning process in tact. You can take that statement any way you want to.  I have houseplants that are older than I am-which says a lot.  

  I am frugal and resourceful.  I am opinionated, though I do love to research ideas.  Some thoughts and beliefs are not negotiable, though I thoroughly respect your right to be wrong.  I was raised in a family where cynicism was a refined art; I'm not incredibly thin skinned.  I am not a multi-tasker and I’m working hard to defeat any notion of being a perfectionist.  

  I am a connoisseur and collector of great music from many genre.  I would talk about my own music, but this is a ‘who I am’ session not a ‘who I was’ session.  I’m not good at those ‘Give us one little-known fact about yourself’ icebreakers.

  I try to be a good friend even though I know that friendship reaches its port now and then and people tend to disembark and find another cruise.  I try to leave behind good memories.  I am also learning to take the advise: “Be thankful for what you were given, not angry about what you were denied.”

  That’s the short story.  Now for the meat!

I have been writing stories since I was a young child.  I love to craft words and tell images.  I've written some very long stories, but do best with short stories as I chase rabbits in the long ones.  Not sure where the rabbits get in, but it happens.  I love poetry and faith based expression (for lack of a better classification).  I write from the heart, the spirit or my quirky sense of humor (again for lack of a better classification). 

  This blog, There must be a reason, is my most random blog, though much of it is about my journey through the fields and landmines of faith and personal growth.  I thank you for reading and acknowledging my writing.

  Incidents of poetry are scattered through my blogs.  I like to write poetry.  It just seems to flow out of me at times.  Other times I purposely try to find a new door into the craft of poetic writing.  Sometimes it’s pure sap.  Sometimes it’s deep or emo.  All of it is me.  My poetry page is Poems and Processes but I have lots I've never published here or otherwise.  I have had my poetry published elsewhere a very few times.

My other blogs here are:

‘Family to Go’  

‘Sweetness BetweenFriends’

‘Goodies but Oldies’        

‘Chuckles and Giggles from 360 days'

‘Artsy Types in Close Quarters’   A journal of an artists trip to the southwest.

 

I welcome readers and comments.  If you use really bad language or become offensive, I’ll just take the comment off.  But I’m not easy to offend.  Aaaah, don’t try just to try.  I still have a lot of old Multiply blogs to add to the above pages.  I’ll probably link to them every now and then.

I am an artist and a teacher.  My website for my studio is  www.donna-by-d-sign.com  But I must warn you that it is always undergoing change.  Just visit again and you’ll see what I mean.

I have a photography page:  Life Captured  Some of the albums are private.  Most are not.  You are welcome to look.  I’d rather you not take my images without permission.  I’m pretty easy going on most of it.

So much more I could say, but you’ve either read it in the blogs, will read it in my blogs, or don’t really want to go there.  This is me – or a lot of me anyway.