Author: Nicole Alicia

  • In my previous post, “Life’s Unpleasant Surprise” I shared that I last fall I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease. I am not writing about this to get sympathy but rather to inform others that no one is…

  •   What if you were going along one day and then BOOM out of know where you found out that you have a serious illness? Well this happened to me, November 2016. After the loss of our son Nicolas in…

  • Spring and Summer are my favorite seasons. I like Fall and particularly hate Winter. It’s so nice when the trees and grass are returning to that lovely green color. Trees in our neighborhood bloom white or purple and they make…

  •   Earlier in the month my husband , tells me that he saw this movie on Netflix I might like called “Burning Sands”. Produced by Gerard McMurray, I knew this was going to be a good one. He was associate…

  • By Nicole Alicia Opening one eye, she could see the orange glow from the street light outside her window. The dull glow pierced through the blinds that had no curtains covering them to block out the light. She rolled over,…

  • I sat there for a moment after opening my room door to the outside commons area, I heard voices yelling, the distant chitter-chatter of people talking below, laughing, yelling and music. Students getting reacquainted, slamming doors from the floor above…

  • I think just about everyone agreed that 2016 was a pretty crappy year. Everyone was looking forward to a fresh start on December 31st, 2016. So, here we are at the last day of January 2017. You know what? Aside…

  • I used to be fairly good at this. Coming up with topics to write about was nothing. I stopped blogging almost a year ago due to intimidation. I felt like I had somehow lost my way. Back in 2007, blogging…