Dorotha's House

10/12/2026

What else do you think has vanished over the years? 👀 Paper maps → GPS apps
Landline phones → Smartphones
Phone booths → Mobile phones
Film cameras → Smartphone cameras
Photo albums → Cloud galleries
VHS tapes → Streaming services
Cassette tapes → Music apps
CD collections → Playlists
Video rental stores → Netflix
Paper tickets → QR codes
Paper boarding passes → Mobile passes
Cash → Cards and mobile payments
Cheques → Online banking
Yellow Pages → Search engines
Printed encyclopedias → Wikipedia
Handwritten letters → Instant messages
Fax machines → Email and cloud sharing
Pagers → Text messages
Answering machines → Voicemail
TV guides → Streaming menus
Newspapers → News apps
Alarm clocks → Smartphones
Address books → Contact lists
Floppy disks → USB drives and cloud storage
Dial-up internet → High-speed broadband
CRT televisions → Flat-screen TVs
Overhead projectors → Smartboards
Printed recipes → Food blogs and videos
Separate GPS devices → Navigation apps
Incandescent bulbs → LED lights

10/11/2026

October is Domestic
Violence Awareness Month--
I see this happen often and wanted to give my feelings on new relationships.
When a person is desperately looking for love-- it makes them more vulnerable to get in a bad relationship fast! Don't start out telling this new person what you are looking for---because that is who they will become. Just be silent and patient about certain aspects of your wants--- take a lot of time to know them--because at first everyone seems perfect--- and DON'T be intimate or take them home with you ----be slow to know them and look hard at their past relationships----don't take their word for it ! This can save you a lot of grief.
Also you need to love yourself first and not be looking for someone to complete you!

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

Don’t try to declutter the whole house in one go. Start with the small wins, and focus on little actions that make a visible difference.

These mini decluttering wins you can start doing today. There are ideas for the whole house to make you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

09/30/2026

I think one of the hardest things about being human is how easily something that is already over can keep happening inside you.

Someone hurt you years ago, but on the wrong night, you can still hear exactly what they said. You can still remember where you were standing. You can still feel that awful drop in your stomach. The moment ended. Everyone went home. Life moved on. But some part of you stayed there.

And then there is the future.

God, the amount of pain I have felt over things that never even happened. Conversations I rehearsed. People I imagined losing. Endings I prepared myself for because I thought expecting the worst would somehow make it hurt less if it came.
It didn't make me safer.

It just made me suffer early.

I am slowly realizing that I cannot keep asking today to pay for what yesterday did to me. And I cannot keep ruining beautiful moments because I am terrified they won't last.

Some things in my past still hurt when I touch them. Some things about my future still scare me when I think too long about them. Maybe they always will.

But I don't want to spend this one life constantly looking over my shoulder or nervously around the corner.

I want to be here. Even if here is uncertain. Even if here doesn't come with guarantees. Because I have already lost enough time to things that happened.
I don't want to lose any more to things that haven't.

09/28/2026

I tried this once, by accident. Car wouldn't start, no signal where I broke down, and I sat there for almost two hours with nothing to do but exist. And it was the most uncomfortable two hours I'd had in months.

Because my brain kept reaching for something that wasn't there: a scroll, a notification, anything to interrupt the quiet. It took almost an hour before that reaching stopped. And underneath it was just... me. Thoughts I'd apparently been too busy to have. A conversation I still owed someone, an honest answer to a question I'd been dodging, a low hum of "what am I actually doing with my life" that I usually drown out by 8am with the first scroll of the day.

That's what this graphic is actually describing, and it's a lot less peaceful than it sounds on paper. "The 3 hour disappear" isn't a spa day. It's closer to detox. Your nervous system spends the first stretch of it panicking, looking for the thing it's addicted to - the phone, the noise, someone to perform normalcy for. And only once that panic burns off does anything honest show up.

Most of us haven't sat with our own thoughts uninterrupted since we were kids, and even then it was rare. We've built entire lives around never being alone with our own head for long enough to hear what it's actually saying.

I'm not going to pretend I've made this a weekly habit. I haven't. But I know exactly what's waiting for me in those three hours, which is probably why I keep avoiding it - and also exactly why it'd be good for me to keep trying until it becomes a habit.

06/28/2026

Old frames reused to dry herbs
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