Some people get pennies from heaven - my mom sent me scarabs.

what a lovely post. i'm with you on the subject of the afterlife. i consider myself a rational person overall but i think we could all benefit from leaving a little room to the possibility of something that's beyond our understanding.

15 is a good mortification age. I cried on a school trip when I was 15 - like properly cried, so much that my contact lens got stuck and one of the parents had to help me fish it out. That one still haunts me!

I’m thinking of the time 20-year-old me walked through Minneapolis with my skirt tucked into my tights. It must have been BLOCKS: out of whichever building I was coming out of, across my college campus, down a busy street past the frat houses, until some kind person told me my entire ass was out for the world to see 😂

@ratlands - as a former contact lens wearer, OUCH! @oopsiedoodle - classic mortification moment!

It's a twofer today for blog posts! The weekly tiara plus the dish I'm "bringing" to the Small Web Potluck.

yayyy small web potluck!

Do you have a tablecloth the same color as my sidebar or something???

Looks great! I recently made an elote-type toast that was delicious 😋

@skep, hah! No, I have a light box that came with a bunch of colored background inserts and that was one of them.

Perhaps not the pencil journal your mother envisioned, but your whole site is a labor of love. I think there is something daunting too, about paper as a medium. I always felt it demanded a perfection that I never can get past. A few HTML tags though? HTML is a medium that is more accessible and forgiving.

I enjoyed reading this. My mom left behind a few diary entries when she died. We weren’t super close, so it was nice to read her inner thoughts. I don’t really keep a daily diary (boring), but I do spend a lot of time with personal writing. I think a lot about if I share too much (probably yes), but I also don’t want to give anyone the satisfaction of shutting me up on my own website. Lol.

@dicjournal - ❤️ Thank you for the kind compliment about my site! Also, a sheet of blank paper staring at you is just *daunting*. @oopsiedoodle - I'm glad your mom left something written behind. Even if it was just a few entries it at least was something. Also, loved "I also don’t want to give anyone the satisfaction of shutting me up on my own website." 🤣

Ooo lots of good stuff here. I love the kitty postcard, and the star pattern in its fur <3 a web potluck is such a fun idea, might have to check that out!

Ohhh I love Attack the Block! Had no idea they were making a sequel.

Attack the Block sounds fun. They need to make way more alien movies.

woah these are so beautiful and unique thanks for sharing!

Those dust storms are impressive. I think in Australia on the east coast we've had one major dust storm in recent years. The photos that came out were pretty impressive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Australian_dust_storm