During late spring and, so far, all this summer, I have been plagued by bazillions of flies, both house flies and fruit flies. I can't have air-conditioning, so I have to turn both fans on and keep the door onto the porch open. And that means that all days long, the flies swarm into my bathroom and main room (I live in a tiny studio apartment) ( Read more... )

If there are such things as guardian angels, either I've never had one, or the one I have has had it in for me since before I was born. Damn near EVERYTHING has gone wrong for me throughout my life, from my adoption through the non-stop bullying by my adoptive mother and foster parents, the death of my fiance in a car wreck three weeks before we ( Read more... )

I need to set up two GoFundMe.com accounts, but there are problems with that which I don't know how to get around ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I had the strangest experience of my life ( Read more... )

Club Vesta: A Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Love, or, Love-Letters to America is now live on amazon.com! Currently it is being promoted by price reductions and even free downloads. Here is the description of the book ( Read more... )

My first book sale! I just got an email from amazon.com saying someone bought one of my books on amazon.uk! And a neighbor said she was going to look up my books on amazon.com and buy at least one -- she reads all the time, and is always looking for new reading material. :-D Now, if only this trend continues ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here with tears running down my cheeks as I type. I'm 72 years old, and for 69 of those years I have hated myself with a passion -- for reasons unknown. I'm revolted at and disgusted by myself as I am at a given time, but not when I was younger. It's always been that way. Lately, the rest of me has begged me to stop hating myself ( Read more... )

I went into the hospital on June 12, calling 911, which took me to the ER at UW's Northwest Hospitl that afternoon ( Read more... )

For the last few weeks I've been terribly, terribly sick with something that has had me so sick that at night that I run very hot feversm but when I wake up in the morning I'm over the fevers, my hair is sopping wet from the prebious night's fever heat (though it dries fairly quickly ( Read more... )

If you like this blog, please check out my books on amazon.com: check "books" in the drop-down menu, then enter "Yael Dragwyla" in the search bar, and it will bring up all my books on the site.

Also, I'm on Facebook.com, as well. Just enter "Yael Dragwyla" in the search bar. (I have a Twitter account, as well, but rarely use it, and have a ( Read more... )