Over the past 2 years or so, (basically since I developed epilepsy) reading has become a absolute nightmare for me. After each seizure my brain has felt less cognitively on point. Struggles with concentration, forgetting what I’ve read, losing track of the story line, mixing characters up etc, have made reading more of a chore … Continue reading My month in books (January)

Birds chirp sweetly in the trees, Branches sway atop the breeze. Blackbirds dip and dart and run, and shine and glint in winter sun. A streak of red, a twitching nose, a bushy squirrel as statues pose. Shoots appear from frozen ground, roots creep down without a sound. The spade is crunching in the soil, … Continue reading This is happiness