The Inherent Dragonfly A journey of discovering hope, change and love within myself.

There are weeks and months like this one that I believe my blogging days are over.  It is so hard for me  to put my thoughts on paper.  I have always blogged because I enjoy it, but lately it has been frustrating.  I have thoughts I want to put into words, but that part of my brain is short circuiting and I get lost in the writing of a sentence let alone trying to keep the cohesiveness of a paragraph.  And my spelling, ugh.  The simplest words are so hard to form.  Thank goodness for spellcheck.   Typically, I will write a blog entry and wait for a day or so and reread it and fix the word damage and broken thoughts before I post it.  If you read any of my blogs over the past 15 years, my decline is obvious.  To be honest, I write for myself, but I do love when someone reads it and comments.  I am at a cross roads with my blog.  I have loved writing my entire life, but now it is so hard to do.  I don't know if I should...

  Ice that coated my car after the February 2025 ice storm. Living in Northeast Ohio, I am able to enjoy the 5 seasons.  Five seasons? Yes, we have added a season to the known seasons of Winter, Spring , Summer and Fall. Our added season takes place two times in the twelve month year.  Maybe it is because we have had dogs that we have coronated the season between spring and summer and again during fall and winter as the muddy season. An issue with the in-between seasons in Northeast Ohio is the dramatic changes in temperature with in 24 hours that can occur. I am filled with hope of spring when the temperature rises from the low 50s to the low 60s for highs during the day. I accept the one warm day, five cooler days and one cold day each week that occurs the between the beginning of March to the beginning of May,  but the huge swings in temperature changes are painful. For example, there was a 32 degree difference in the high temperatures of the day within a 24 hour ...