Comments on That Grrl: Hermitized!

I am all about spending the holidays with just me ...

2009-10-07T20:30:43.561-04:00

I am all about spending the holidays with just me and my husband. I love my family most of the time, but you're right. It's tiring. Good luck!

I totally know how you feel because - me too! I dr...

2009-10-06T19:54:49.755-04:00

I totally know how you feel because - me too! I dream of living on an island or in Northern Ontario (Manitoulin would be ideal) and writing and, you know, having shampoo and the internet. And my immediate family. And coffee etc. But - yeah. When we visit family I need lots and lots of breaks. I sort of need them in everyday life, too.

I try to tell myself that this is How Writers Are. It is how I am anyway.

We go out and eat on Thanksgiving. I save the baking etc for Christmas - it can still be warm in mid-October, you know! Not this year, but I'll think of some other excuse :)

Happy three-day weekend coming up!

I don't think being a hermit necessarily means liv...

2009-10-06T09:04:39.302-04:00

I don't think being a hermit necessarily means living in an unheated shack without running water. I definitely have times I'd like to be a hermit. In fact, just two weekends ago I was at a mixed retreat in a convent and I thought, fleetingly, how nice it might be to join the handful of remaining nuns of that community. They aren't cloistered; they interact with the world; but they lead a simpler life and definitely have fewer dealings with humanity-at-large. That notion often appeals to me.

I know EXACTLY how you feel! That's why I insist o...

2009-10-05T23:02:40.286-04:00

I know EXACTLY how you feel! That's why I insist on bringing my own alcoholic beverage to every family get together.. Lol.. I've never seen a group of people get together after not seeing each other - some of them - all year long and then argue about something that happened when they were 3! Of course ours is a big Italian family and there are plenty of back in the day/remember when you... Stories to last year round.. Funny they only seem to surface at the holidays, oh and funerals..
I vote for hermitizing!