What are your two favorite things to wear?

Since I live in a rainy city, the items of clothing I wear the most are my Blundstones & my Barbour jacket. The jacket is over 4 years old & my Blundstones well I now have several pairs.

I wear my Blundstones year round & can count on one hand how many times I actually wear sneakers in the city I live in.

The Barbour jacket was a Christmas gift a few years ago & requires that it’s waxed once a year to keep it from becoming water logged. It’s a labor of love.

Now, my jacket is in fashion something that I can’t really take. I’m not into being in fashion. I wear shirts that are almost a decade old because I’m not into the fast fashion thing.

For my Blundstones I switch color depending on my mood. In the Winter with medium weight wool socks. Anyway, I recently acquired a rain hat that matches my jacket. I feel very on trend. Yuck.

Can’t wait till my Barbour goes out of style again so I can wear it without getting looks.

What technology would you be better off without, why?

They enable stalkers to “track” their victims. We’re addicted to doom scrolling & the little blue screen. They cause interference in our lives by going off at the wrong time.

Cellphones have caused harm in children beginning at age 2. Young children under the age of 10 have shown to develop eating disturbances that they will spend their whole life fighting.

Tiktok “influencers” put pressure on young children to lose weight & dress perfectly when they should be drawing, reading & creating. I agree with Australia that children under the age of 16 shouldn’t have one.

I have personally seen kids harass each other after school on a local bus by using cellphones & inappropriate age apps.

No, thanks I’d rather go back to the 1980’s before this horrible device was invented. Before the internet & all the crap that has come along with it. No thank you!

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?

I was pushed away by someone I was very close to & then she proceeded to ghost me for months. I never asked her to stop because she was never strong on accountability.

It was devastating & it reminded me of a guy I dated briefly in the summer of 2005. He broke up with me by walking out on me. I was shocked & saddened.

Hence, when she spent 6 months pushing me away I realized she wasn’t the real deal. A good friend would never do that.

We had been stalked by someone who entered our house for over 2 years. I still have small holes in my clothes from where he used scissors to cut out holes in my clothes. He left feces in our toilet. Made origami of one of the night gowns. He may have burned his evidence but I still have the holes in my clothes to prove that he was here.

As soon as we changed the lock to an electronic one he could no longer get in & harass us. It’s something that makes me feel violated & uncomfortable for a long time.

She chose to walk away just as I had put all the pieces of stalking together. No one else left my side, just her. Speaks volumes about the kind of person she is.