About This Blog
You need a social media presence!
That phrase can send shivers down the spine of someone who misses analog photography, still has a CD player, and reads books off-screen! However, years ago, an editor told me just that. So against my nature, I decided to self-promote.
Fall, Once Again!
Fall is the season that makes you want to crash in front of the TV, read books, and listen to your favorite audiobooks and playlists. It is the perfect excuse to indulge in behavior such as baking more-than-good-for-you cakes, muffins, and cookies, even now, with the current stomach-turning price levels for electricity and food…
How To Get Through Tough Times
So, how do I deal with being persecuted by Danish extremists and criminals with links to criminal groupings in France, which has, truth be told, now and then left me in the dumps? Here’s a brief overview of my method for maintaining balance, a positive spirit, and sanity when the world around you is horrible and sickening!
5 Steps to Lasting Solutions
A reader of this blog wrote me an email with her own story. Reading and responding to this email made me think a bit about what I had actually done to end my stalking nightmare after I realized in late 2019 that you cannot escape gang stalkers.
Return to Happiness
Life can be a rotten deal sometimes, but that does not mean everything in your life has been bad, even if it feels like that when you are neck-deep in a situation that seems only to be getting worse by the minute. When life is like that, one of the remedies to stay happy can be the psychological trick of an emotional and visual return to happy moments. It is the same as when you fix your computer by returning to the last point where it worked.
How to Endure Gang-Stalking, Part 2
The stress of constant harassment, death threats, slander, people entering your premises, and worse, via smart technology, is a killer. Stress can lead to heightened blood pressure, depression, diabetes, you name it. And stress can ultimately kill you.
How to Endure Gang-Stalking, Part 1
Monsters are monsters who will not stop until they are stopped or die. Still, alarms can keep them out of your house, and outdoor surveillance can keep them off your property.
My Inner Parisian
I lived and worked in Paris from 2008 to 2014 (excluding an intermezzo). And it was a good life, and I made that iconic city my home. So my soul-big-city-home is still Paris, for better, for worse, until something new comes along to replace it.
Out of the Grumpiness
When you lose a dog, it feels like life has ended. You think that you will never, as Lady Gaga sang, love again. But then, one day, suddenly, 1 ½ years after your fur-BFF passed away, something happens. You realize you have returned from the land of perpetual grumpiness.
We Don’t Live in Paradise.
Finding a decent place to live can be and most often is a horrid ordeal in European capitals and big cities, for foreigners and natives alike. And even if you pay sky-high rent, it does not assure that your place is legal or warm in the winter. Some of my former apartments in Paris felt and looked as if they came with the cast of La Bohème and a prescription for tuberculosis!