When it comes to the universe, I believe in truth before I believe in karma, or anything else, including people’s varying opinions about the existence of “God”, or a god. Truth has never failed me. With all of that said, yes I very much believe in karma. Whatever the rules of karma is exactly, I have no clue, but I strive to treat people the way they treat me. It may not be the exact same way, but if you respect me, I’ll respect you. If you don’t, be ready for crazy because I ain’t the one.
Digital art created in the Cross-Stitch World Android App using a random photo found on Tumblr. Finished on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2026 at 1:22 PM CST.
How do you write what people actually want to read?
I don’t think there is a magic formula for catching someone’s attention to your writing. For me, I just try to keep it real. I write like I talk. Some people like that. Some people don’t. It’s okay either way. You’re not ever going to appeal to all audiences.
I was craving cheese last night, and I just ate some sharp cheddar cheese, but that’s not the topic of this post. So I’m typically not the type of blogger who leaves my website and blogs open for comments, specifically due to that I’m not a fan of moderating for spam or trolls, but when I started CRAYY.co on the 15th this month, I thought I would change my tune and try to have an open forum on this domain where people could comment or leave feedback. Imagine my shock when I actually started getting comments lol. It was like, what? Who’s talking to me? Imagine the bigger shock when I noticed 7 messages that were sent straight to the spam tab in comments moderation. That was magically done by Akismet (automatically included when you have a free or paid site on the WordPress.com platform). I know that Akismet has been around for a number of years, over 20 in fact. It was launched by Automattic, the company founded by WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg on October 25th, 2005. So I’m just glad to see that Akiskmet was doing it’s job to make it super simple to see all the spam at a glance and delete all of it by clicking the “Empty Spam” button. In other random news, if I didn’t mention it, I recently bought a new laptop to upgrade my setup for blogging, and managing my work. Specifically I bought it to use Thunderbird for Gmail, because I’m stuck using Outlook on my Surface Pro 11 because Thunderbird and even BetterBird doesn’t work on that machine, and I don’t know why, but I’m not much of a fan of Outlook. There is something I can’t pinpoint about it that makes me feel cruddy whenever I use it. So I got Thunderbird working just fine. I have started connecting some of my older email accounts, and between two that I’ve connected so far, I now have over 73K emails to do something with. I also have probably 20 more emails to add to Thunderbird. I am about as bad at hoarding old email accounts as I am hoarding WordPress.com domains lol. Oh well, there are much worse things I could be hung up on I guess.
What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
I don’t remember the month, but it was in 1997, shortly after I got out of the U.S. Army in the prior year 1996, and it was the first time I ever took off somewhere on my own. I’m thinking it was in, or close to September because I took the trip for my 27th birthday. I remember thinking I wanted to see the ocean before I reach 30. I got in my 1991 Chevrolet Cavalier and drove from Alabama to Pensacola, Florida to go see the ocean for the first time in my life. I had no clue that there was a problem with the motor in my car, but I made it home. The car stopped running shortly after the trip. While in Florida, I ended up on Navarre Beach at a place where nudists hang out. That was wild. It was a short, but fun, two day trip. I stayed in a hotel overnight, and then went exploring the beach the next day for awhile, and headed home that evening.
I am of course referring to my blogging, content creating, and publishing work when I titled this post “I Stay Busy Busy Busy”. I think a healthy form of self care is to never get bored. An easy way to never get bored, is to find something to write about, or find something on the internet to share with people, and I definitely stay busy doing those things. Even when I am doom scrolling, I’m busy looking for something to write about or share. Stay busy! Busy busy!
Without giving details, I’ll say the place I make a living at feels like another home – my other home. If the question was referring to travel, I’ve never been anywhere outside of my hometown that felt like home, or that I called home. The closest to that was “This is where I live for now.” I go to the facility, and it’s like I’m at my 2nd apartment every day.
