Dad above on the Badger Ferry from Ludington to Green Bay.
Strange these writing cues seem to be popping up on WordPress here and strange it says to talk about my father or father figures–my father’s good friend just passed away last night (my father passed in June).
Mom: (Dad at end but Mom at the height of her movie star beauty:
I don’t have a real good post for today–just a link to my Substack site where I’ll be doing less personal posts, more professional and/or political.
I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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9 thoughts on “Carnivore Dreams – Dad, Mom and Substack Part II”
Nice post. Sorry about your Dad, and your Mother is beautiful. I’m posting less these days and trying to stay less political. I realized it makes no difference and keeps me in a constant state of agitation. Write about life, your life, your parents life, things that matter to people when they read.
Yes, I’m trying to limit politics because I think it’s giving me an ulcer, I hear you– and limiting my contact with political people who are just upsetting. I’m hoping to get into my fiction after the first of the year and concentrate there on Substack–more personal and diet things on here. We’ll see how I do. Happy holidays, Phil.
It seems typical to think of our parents – especially if they’ve passed – at this time of year. Your mom was a beauty.
I limit my political discussions, people I work with have different views and I stew and bite my tongue a lot.
I plan to play around over at substack and get something going there for 2023.
Abby, I tried to post on your site, and check to see if I was following you. I remember we had a correspondence about John Holton. But it says it won’t give me my google password (I know I had one when I taught at Northern Michigan) because I didn’t give them enough information, so not sure if my comment posted or not. Let me know on here how I can follow you, especially if you go to Substack! Or email me at lynnfay73@hotmail.com
Oh, weird. No, I didn’t see a comment from you at my blogger site. Not sure how to follow without a google login – that’s blogger for ya. Once I get my Substack going, I’ll let you know!
Yep, let me know when you get on Substack,.Abby. Comment on one of my posts and I’ll follow you. Don’t really like messing with google anyway, but no way to figure out how to get back on.
She was something, all right. Guys used to say it was too bad I didn’t look more like her and stuff. She got very heavy later in life, but that was her hair modeling period.
L.E.K. 
Nice post. Sorry about your Dad, and your Mother is beautiful. I’m posting less these days and trying to stay less political. I realized it makes no difference and keeps me in a constant state of agitation. Write about life, your life, your parents life, things that matter to people when they read.
Yes, I’m trying to limit politics because I think it’s giving me an ulcer, I hear you– and limiting my contact with political people who are just upsetting. I’m hoping to get into my fiction after the first of the year and concentrate there on Substack–more personal and diet things on here. We’ll see how I do. Happy holidays, Phil.
It seems typical to think of our parents – especially if they’ve passed – at this time of year. Your mom was a beauty.
I limit my political discussions, people I work with have different views and I stew and bite my tongue a lot.
I plan to play around over at substack and get something going there for 2023.
Great, I’ll follow you there.
Abby, I tried to post on your site, and check to see if I was following you. I remember we had a correspondence about John Holton. But it says it won’t give me my google password (I know I had one when I taught at Northern Michigan) because I didn’t give them enough information, so not sure if my comment posted or not. Let me know on here how I can follow you, especially if you go to Substack! Or email me at lynnfay73@hotmail.com
Oh, weird. No, I didn’t see a comment from you at my blogger site. Not sure how to follow without a google login – that’s blogger for ya. Once I get my Substack going, I’ll let you know!
Yep, let me know when you get on Substack,.Abby. Comment on one of my posts and I’ll follow you. Don’t really like messing with google anyway, but no way to figure out how to get back on.
Holy cow, your mother was an absolute stunner! Look at that bone structure!
She was something, all right. Guys used to say it was too bad I didn’t look more like her and stuff. She got very heavy later in life, but that was her hair modeling period.