Wowza, over 6 months since I wrote anything! Guess I just didn’t feel like doing it or I would have. Today I felt my blog calling my name.

So, what condition am I in? Great, to be exact. After two and a half years on my own, I am comfortable with solitude. I no longer remember that I live alone. Seems like I am surrounded with people but they are all in my head and I am having conversations with them. I am never lonely and love living alone.

Here’s how I sum it up. It is a quote by Author, Horacio Jones:

I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore in order to win me over,  your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You’re not competing with another person, you’re competing with my comfort zones.

I enjoy going into the big city but usually can’t wait to get back home to my little country paradise. After living many years in Los Angeles and Houston, I no longer want to be surrounded by all that noise, anxiety, stress, crime and all those people! Busy, busy, busy at all times.

Okay, granted, I am after all 70 years old and this probably happens to many of us. I have been quite introspective for the last few months. I made it through my third Holiday Season and our birthdays without my love, Steve. But I made it! I have been thinking of him a lot and mostly laughing through tears. It feels good.

My work in the medical world as a Standardized Patient has grown exponentially through the past seven years and I am now also a Teaching Associate for first year medical students at both UT McGovern Med School and Texas A & M Med School. I really enjoy the work. These young medical students are so smart and it is a blessing to get to work with them.

I continue to volunteer usher at two theaters, The George Theatre and Stages Gordy Theater. It is wonderful and I get to enjoy so many wonderful plays. After all my acting with the medical schools, I think I could be an actor, ha ha.

Sadly, I lost “Bird”, my peacock to a wild animal attack. It really made me so sad because he was really Steve’s pet and I always associated Bird with him. The rest of the crew are all alive and well. Red Angeli and Pete Anderson, my 100 pound each dog security team protects me from anyone harmful and will lick your face if you are my friend. My lovable weenie dogs, Harpo and Noodle are pretty much glued to me all the time. They are my couch mates and snuggle up with me to sleep every night. My cats, Melvin Grace and Ms. Bradley are quite the pair. Ms. Bradley weighs 22 pounds, Melvin weighs 11. I can hardly lift Ms. Bradley. She is a tough old girl. My chickens, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and Diana Krall are fat and happy delivering 3 eggs every day for me to dine on. I continue to feed the deer, squirrels, and birds and occasional bunnies. It’s like Disneyland!

House and property are fine. The house is 8 years old now and still in great shape thanks to my awesome contractor, Larry Whitworth, who is a dear family friend. I try to be pioneer woman and fix things but I am not always successful and have to rely on my neighbor, Sammy, my sister Leigh Ann or my brother, Eddie. All three of them can do ANYTHING! My sister is remodeling one of her rent houses and I go over there occasionally just to learn. Plumbing, electrical, whatever she is working on that day.

No other news to report except that I feel fabulous.

DeeDee