Ann Clark McFarland
Fresh Words
Hi reader! I appreciate your time in looking at my alternate blog site, Stressbless, however it is no longer my primary/current blog site. I’ve not posted in Stressbless for several years. The reason I leave it out here in internet space is because I have an Avatar connected to it that allows me to comment […]
Bovine Votes and Blog Posts
In this past 2016 election year, I discovered that bison can vote. In fact, all bovine or herd-like animals can vote. They do this by positioning their body towards the object they want to vote for. For instance, if a drink of water seems like a good idea, then they turn their body towards the water. […]
Read Free Scifi Supernatural Thriller on my Fiction site
FIVE: Episode Forty-Eight is based off the following book excerpt from my science fiction, supernatural, thriller, The Contingency Generation. Chapter 48 Framework I flatten out the printer error log containing my first message from Five. I turn it so the text is readable to her. “This has to be Kate’s copy. Why is it […]
Robbed
He comes to me often in dreams. I see him laughing and walking freely without a walker, and I marvel. I ask him how he is so much better. He says the doctor put him on a new medicine and it is healing him. In other dreams, he is killed in an accident. Both dreams […]
The Problem With Paris
I reluctantly agreed to go to Paris. It seemed a better idea in February when we used our savings to buy our tickets and pay our share of the week’s apartment rent. My husband and I would be celebrating 32 years of marriage this year, and the romance of Paris and the request of our […]
Sanctuary
In my town between the worlds of land and sea, there is a sanctuary—a marsh where fresh and salt water mingle to become a third world. Emotionally speaking, when we exist between what we long for and what is not yet accomplished, we often live in a similar place. Our struggle to hang on to […]
Did You Really Say No?
When the “name it claim it” approach to life does not work out, reconsider your tactic. Are you telling God He can’t say “no” to you? This topic is discussed in a post on the blog, Girlfriends in God (link below) from Crosswalk. Don’t Say No, by Gwen Smith offers a new perspective to those […]
Warning: Imagination Overload Can Lead to Stress
Facing the unknown with a full throttle imagination can be stressful. Like a bag of potato chips, I find myself addictively dipping into imagined scenarios to explain what I don’t know or understand. The problem with imagination is its very nature is comprised of the ability to form images and ideas in the mind, especially […]
His Other Hand
“How could You,” I said. “YOU let him slip right through your fingers! WE cannot see him.” “I see him. I know exactly where he is. He’s in my other hand. I have him. Remember, I have two hands. One is open for you to see, and one is closed for holding.” So do not […]
Mystery Medicine Reduces Stress
Children use it over 400 times a day and adults only fifteen. Its influence is known all over the world. It’s addicting, and it affects the brain. Women participate in it more than men, but men initiate the use more than women. Media occupations have been historically altered by its power. The Bible has something […]
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