It’s Friday. Of course, when one is retired, it’s always Friday, right? This week has been “one of those weeks.” I’ve been low on energy with intermittent headaches, yet my “creative” mood has ratcheted up. I bought some inexpensive sketching pencils and oil pastels, watched several YouTube videos, and started playing in my sketchbook again. That has been the highlight of the week.

Today’s Five Things prompt is Five Things That May Not Know about Me (or something along those lines):

1. I have written a novel–in long-hand, no less. It’s not typed up yet, but will be.
2. I want to be an actress and play the role of Lady Macbeth, at least the Lady M of Acts I and II. I’d rather not play her mad scene in Act IV (I think).
3. I am afraid more often than I am brave–afraid of not being good enough or just enough.
4. I could have been a math teacher if I had taken one more math course, but after two semesters of calculus, I dropped out of math because English majors didn’t need that much math. I’m not exactly a “math-a-phob,” but math is NOT my subject.
5. I didn’t finish my doctorate in English after John was born thirty-four years ago, but I have no regrets.

And as usual, there is at least one more to add to the list:

6. I am pretending to be an artist! (See the opening paragraph about the oil pastels and sketching pencils). My stuff isn’t horrible, but I have a long way to go. Who knows, I may be the next Grandma Moses.

Happy Friday everyone. I will be on vacation in a few days, but I’ll be back soon!