life of a georgia Artist

                                                      Photo by  Joanna Kosinska  on  Unsplash Have you ever had a blue Christmas/Holiday Season? Is it a struggle to get out of bed and be filled with holiday cheer? Is even getting out of bed, showering, and eating toast to hard? Does depression have a hold on you? Tis the season of joy, good cheer towards men, and lying in bed praying for it all to pass and hoping no one notices you are missing. Depression is a mental health issue many of us suffer with during the holidays. Seasonal depression is real. Why then do people still not believe others when they say “I am feeling blue"?  Seasonal depression is when the holidays feel like a weight is on your chest. It is debilitating and crippling. It keeps us from singing holiday carols. It holds us hostage in our homes and makes sh...

                                              Photo by  Kira auf der Heide  on  Unsplash       Why is Writing so difficult for so many? You are a writer if you have voices, characters, and images in your head and you write them down. If you soul search you are a poet (or writer ) and if you love words and use them in the most magical way, you are lucky. Writing for so many is so a difficult task. Recently I did NaNoWriMo. I wrote 50,000 words for the month of November. I pushed through it and came out with a pretty interesting book. Writing though has had its difficulties with me. Words for many come easy. It is the choice what to write that is the difficult part. There are many different genres available to write in. I love reading memoirs right now. There are so much heart and soul in them. They inspire me to write better, to include...