Someone watching over me

Someone watching over me

This may sound from the first paragraph that it's going to be a depressing post...it's really not, bear with me...there is light. Two major life events happened for me in a matter of days in the first week of October, 1991. On the Monday I found out I was pregnant and on the Sunday, just [...]

Slow Burn

Slow Burn

My blog post the other day about about male types you encounter in Second Life seemed to go down well. I had lots of messages on Facebook and in world asking me to write more on the subject and I am sure I will...trust me, I get plenty of examples and experiences with guys I [...]

Proceed with Caution: Starting to Date in SL

Proceed with Caution: Starting to Date in SL

I have a friend who has recently found herself in the situation of being single in SL after a very long time of being in a relationship. I know from experience that can be a hard transition, especially if you enjoyed the comfort and security of a monogamous SL and suddenly have to start thinking [...]

Free from the all the pain, Free from all the game

Free from the all the pain, Free from all the game

Why is honesty such a difficulty for a large number of people online? Now, there are several degrees of deceit, a spectrum if you will. It seems to me that sometimes people want to please so they tell you what they think you want to hear. We can call them white lies and I think that [...]

Starry Starry Night, Paint Your Palette Blue and Grey

Starry Starry Night, Paint Your Palette Blue and Grey

  One of the subjects I wish I had studied more at school is art. I really wasn't very good at it and later on in secondary school the choices were art and drama and I went for drama as I had always considered myself to be a budding actress. As a very young child [...]

The Beauty Battlefield

The Beauty Battlefield

I talked over the weekend about how I would rather lose my sight than sound. It got me thinking as I was writing it about how that might work in SL. After all what most people, including myself, enjoy about SL is the ability to make our avatars a gorgeous, slim, physically attractive version of [...]