Random and Odd

ok. not good. probably bad.

  • I must admit just because you’re clean doesn’t mean you don’t miss it.

    I’m struggling this morning. So this morning I was thinking about addiction to a feeling.  I use to love the feeling of falling in love.  That has to be the most powerful drug our body creates.  There is always the flipside to that addiction and that’s the recovery from it. In my version of falling…

  • I didn’t have it in me to go with grace…

    “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.” I listen to this podcast on Stoicism and yesterday this was the quote they used to introduce the show and I had to go find the quote and read it over and over….

  • The Winds of Change…

    It’s too late in this life I am guessing, but in my next I want to study to expert level of  Greek Mythology. No, that’s not what I am writing about today. I have set some goals for myself because my brain decided to do this fun thing lately. I have been waking up at…

  • soul crushing wanderlust monday early morning – Spotify

    I opened up my Spotify this morning so I had something playing in the background and looked at Reputation because that is what I am feeling lately.  Very much in my Look What You Made Me Do era and as I was deciding what song I would start with I realized that today, after this…

  • Well, that was an interesting conversation…

    Ever get the chance to tell someone something you have wanted to tell them for years, but couldn’t because it wasn’t acceptable and possibly rude?  I finally got to do it.  Did it feel as good as I hoped it would? No. In return though, I got complete honesty which opened a dialog that actually…

  • Cruel Summer

    [writing prompt 9-1-23 – cruel summer] My summer began in the middle of May, right smack dab in the middle of May on the coast of Ireland. May has always been a disinclined month for me in the past.  Everything happens on the edge of May or right there in the thick of it.  There…

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Why I Started My Personal Blog

I started Random and Odd back in 2002 or so because it was all the rage and my mom and sister were perpetually online either playing games or finding recipes.
I decided that I wanted to be able to write what I was going through as a parent and keep them updated on what the girls were saying or doing. It started out just a way for me to vent, rant or laugh about life.
It turned into more when other people outside of my mom and sister started reading it and through the years it was just a place for Stuff Portrait Fridays, meeting other people blogging and making those people friends. It was a place to put down a photo I took that I was proud of and then it was a place to talk about the traveling I was doing. Now it’s just a dumping ground of bullshit that is swirling in my head.

I want to get back to writing, taking photos and traveling and doing a complete redo of R & 0 was needed to document.
Enjoy the minimalist look.

Kristine

Photographer & Writer