Tag: self care

  • The Essentials – A Hot Bath!

    The Essentials – A Hot Bath!

    It’s been quite a while since I’ve added to the “essentials” category here on the Diva Dispatch. If you’d like to read the other posts in this group, please just enter the term “essentials” in the search box and the blog brownies (not to be confused with the “bog brownies“!) will helpfully pull up all…

  • Looking Forward

    Looking Forward

    A useful thing I’ve done for the last few years is to take the week between Christmas and the New Year to do some pondering. I have discovered that this sort of deep thinking is best done quietly, by oneself, and in very comfortable clothes (quality pondering doesn’t necessarily require pajamas, but it’s an excellent…

  • Joie 25 – Reading

    Joie 25 – Reading

    I’m a reader. Always have been. I grew up in a family that prized education and books and I had my first library card (a pasteboard affair with a little metal plate embedded in it) before I could actually read. Reading is, and always has been, an activity that gives me tremendous joy. That’s not…