Author: Alicia McNatt

I’m just a wandering soul who writes. A quiet gypsy heart with soft thoughts and an open spirit. This little corner of the internet is where I lay my thoughts down gently — no performance, no pressure, just me being honest with the page and with myself.

Local secret security workers

…photos taken w/ permission

What makes us SAFE is that we have our secret security forces all over town here by the military bases – working to help find missing people – I ran into an outstanding legend!

Coffee house reading:

he spoke about New Orleans infrastructure, how to fix flooding all the pipes would need to be dug up, he talked about business opportunities in Houston – how the model core mall in the city is being structured to have the house to be built AROUND the mall – which makes sense … so

this man as his life career, he helps to locate missing children! But he has ZERO social media so you won’t be able to find or locate him on the internet. He gave his permission for me to take this photo and have it saved on my online journal here.

I told the coffee Manager & staff an extra thank you for keeping the Amaretto flavor – hot latte’ (on a flip flop sweater Gulf Coast random day)

Because

It reminds me of my Mother.

And she said yes, many folk also say they love it and they will always have it-

Things at home that stay bring comfort to my soul

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Alicia McNatt Oct 2025

Raining in the South

I have been staying away from the news this holiday

Rainy Back Porch wet yard
I read so much about our world and politics this year in 2024 that I feel like I have been living my life under a rock up until now! Though I feel more informed, I’m not sure what all I am capable of storing in my mind’s memory! So I have been grateful for the X app. I use it way different than most because I only care about my personal timeline that I scroll based on my follows. I never even look if anyone follows me! Not that I am selfish but that X is literally only like “the eye” of the Titans –

Whatever it is I see I might want to keep track about how it came across to me & so I repost it – my bookmarks are for that I guess but I will add an X widget to my blog here as writing prompts – if I can finaggle it to work like that – it used to

For now I am happy I have the blog app here on my phone now. Today I went from laptop posting to here 🙂 well done me! Good job

New Year to Organize 2025

Getting up my Domain has been confusing to me. I transferred it from WIX to WordPress and now it is pending. I forked over some money for it, but it wasn’t instant. I aim to reteach myself how to use the variety of social platforms for blog/journals/websites and etc.

Here is my WordPress version and everything has changed since I used it over a decade ago. It will look messy for awhile as I squint at my old laptop keyboard…dusting out the browsers that need to be updated.

Good Lord, this year is 2025 to organize and scrutinize my finances an my creativity. I must begin to write again, no matter how feeble this feels…After so many research papers, it feels like I am cutting a leash away to type random thoughts. This Christmas I realized my family has expanded beyond my recognition of names and children faces. We don’t meet together enough but nobody wants to meet more. I traced Ancestry.com and know we have been Americans for the full evolution of USA beginning with a grandfather in the Revolution in Pennsylvania to the Civil War soldiers on the North side…and when I look at my family today I consider the past legacy from which we descended with worry over my own grown-up children. I cannot stop my worry even when I have complete peace for my own sake, I wish the world was more happy for theirs.

I resolve to become more financially responsible, pay my debts, and to organize my time, and finally to be more creative – write more often.