Needs Better Soundproofing
Nov. 13th, 2025 09:54 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
questionable_content_feed
she's doing the voice again
questionable_content_feed
(no subject)
Nov. 10th, 2025 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHad colonoscopy last Friday. I'd been dealing with off-and-on post-nasal dripcough, nothing serious, for some time before that. Got home, largely did okay, but by morning I was coughing and miserable and uggh and wound up with a fever. Haven't gone into the doctor's in person but when I did an e-visit and described my symptoms (including things being green that are not supposed to be green I got a prescription for amoxicillin and 'come in for an in-person exam if this doesn't make the symptoms go away'.
So, sinus infection, as far as I can tell.
I am deeply grateful for the fact that my office is WFH on Mondays and Fridays and for the fact that the office is closed tomorrow. I am in that state of recovery where I am no longer feverish and have just enough energy to sit up and do desk stuff and deceive myself into thinking I am in better shape than I actually am. As much as I want to be at the Vets Against Stupid Ass Orange Tin Plated Dictators With Delusions Of Godhood protests tomorrow to back up the veterans, it would not be a good idea for me to push myself that much. I will be sleeping a lot, assuming the cat allows me to do so.
So, sinus infection, as far as I can tell.
I am deeply grateful for the fact that my office is WFH on Mondays and Fridays and for the fact that the office is closed tomorrow. I am in that state of recovery where I am no longer feverish and have just enough energy to sit up and do desk stuff and deceive myself into thinking I am in better shape than I actually am. As much as I want to be at the Vets Against Stupid Ass Orange Tin Plated Dictators With Delusions Of Godhood protests tomorrow to back up the veterans, it would not be a good idea for me to push myself that much. I will be sleeping a lot, assuming the cat allows me to do so.
It's that time of year, again
Nov. 9th, 2025 03:08 pmderienWhen we get ready to send cards out.
If you have changed your address within the past two years, please send me a private message, because I'm really bad at updating things and just realized that I hadn't updated my holiday cards list from last years changes. ;)
If you have changed your address within the past two years, please send me a private message, because I'm really bad at updating things and just realized that I hadn't updated my holiday cards list from last years changes. ;)
All 6 PostSecret Books Are Still In Hardcover And Available
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:02 ampost_secret_feed—–email—–
Dear Frank-
My boyfriend knew I was a PostSecret fan and a couple of days before Christmas this was in a package on my porch. It was the most thoughtful and unexpected gift. Thanks Rod and Frank!
All 6 PostSecret books are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your favorite Independent bookstore. Order now in time for Christmas.
(PostSecret books from other countries can be tough to find online.)
The post All 6 PostSecret Books Are Still In Hardcover And Available appeared first on PostSecret.
Postcards & Emails
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:07 ampost_secret_feed
—–Email—–
—–Frank@PostSecret.com—–
Dear Frank,
Last week you were speaking in Portland, Oregon. I walked in a little late to a very crowded room. You said a few words, a few more and then, suddenly, I recognized my words:
15 years-ago . . . adoption . . . 1 year-ago . . . trick or treating . . .
Tears sprang to my eyes. You were reading MY secret. And I heard it. Everyone heard it. My heart was thumping so hard in my chest I was certain everyone could hear it too. I wanted to yell out “That’s my secret!”
I went home later, after buying a few books, and told my husband that you read my secret to hundreds of people. He smiled and hugged me. I asked him if he wanted to know what it was. He said; “No, a whole room full of strangers knows, and that’s enough.”
Thank you.
—–Email—–
Dear Frank,
I mailed in one of the secrets that made it into your book, PostSecet Confessions on Life, Death and God. Mine reads-
“When another woman steals your man, the best revenge is to let her keep him.”
Funny story, my ex-husband’s wife (the other woman) dropped my kids off at my house last week and saw my PostSecret book in the kitchen. She exclaimed,
“I love that book! Have you seen the one about stealing another person’s man? That one’s my favorite!”
She had no idea it was about her.
—–Email—–
Two weeks ago I was placed in a psych ward for attempting to take my own life. I was sitting alone until another boy came up to me and simply said, “You’re not the most fucked up person anymore.” For the first time in my life I didn’t feel like I was the only one struggling.
—–Email—–
Frank,
The message about the girl in the psychiatric hospital with the boy who let her in on the secret that she isn’t alone. I’m the girl. I sent you that 8 years ago. Two week after my suicide attempt. It stopped me in my tracks to see it again. I sent it to you on a whim. I can’t remember why. I struggled hard for a few years after this. I struggle still but am stable now. Thank you for honoring me and all of us in what you do.
The post Postcards & Emails appeared first on PostSecret.
Classic Secrets
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:05 ampost_secret_feed
Hi Frank,
Several months ago, I sent in a secret on an image cutout of Mariana by Sir John Everett Millias. Mariana loses the man she loves and, consumed by the grief of unrequited love, she lives a life of loneliness.
For years, I have been struggling severely with depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide as I work through past trauma and a heartbreak. Sending in the secret was a major crack in my healing– a radical acceptance of where my life is. An acknowledgement that I lost something so great and I may spend my life waiting for something that will never come; A solidarity with Mariana. A deep sadness arose within me as I created the card and dropped it in the mail. While I did not receive a miraculous healing from sharing my secret, it allowed me to feel something- anything- which I had been denying myself.
Then something strange happened recently: The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift was released. Swift credits Millias’ painting Ophelia as her inspiration, which, itself, is an interpretation of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. As I learned of the similarities between our inspirations, it was like the Universe winked at me. But Swift turns the fate of her muse around and does not allow grief consume her.
PostSecret and Taylor Swift have given me strength to keep moving. I am just going to keep putting one foot in front of the other and not allow myself to become a female tragedy. I can turn my own fate around.
Thank you!
The post Classic Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
Sunday Secrets
Nov. 2nd, 2025 12:08 ampost_secret_feed
The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
Secret in a Secret
Nov. 2nd, 2025 12:06 ampost_secret_feed
To: “Frank Warren” <frank@postsecret.com>
Subject: Re: I Quit Altoid Tin
Hi Frank: Did you open the Altoid Tin?
~~~
No I thought it was a vampire. Vape
-Frank
~~~
Nope, there is a note inside.
~~~
Oh! you sent it in?
(Vampire was an autocorrect that I left in.)
-Frank
~~~
I thought the vampire autocorrect was funny and very timely for October.
Yes…I was anxious to send it but made myself seal it and drop it in the mailbox the day I wrote it. My heart dropped when I saw my tin had made it and then I felt relief my note wasn’t there (what if someone recognized my handwriting?!) but I kept coming back to it, refreshing the page over and over, thinking that my note was like a genie stuck in a bottle and needing it to be released. So I actually sent an email to you, to release my so called genie. I don’t believe it will grant wishes but I hope it brings something needed to someone else.
I’ve been sober since I wrote it and two weeks isn’t much but writing the note and just letting myself be completely honest was such a release and we all have to start somewhere.
On, a related note, I’ve been visiting postsecret every Sunday since it started. I don’t even remember how I found it but it’s been a safe haven for me over the years and reading the secrets every Sunday provided me a weekly place where I never felt alone, especially as a teenager and continues to comfort me weekly. It’s the first thing I do when I wake up on Sunday. Thank you for creating this project and for keeping our secrets and keeping it going and everyone else that is brave enough to send in their secrets.
I opened the bag the postoffice put your secret in and looked for the best place to cut it open to get at the note, but it’s so well sealed – and cute. Is it okay if we let your story stand and preserve the note as a mystery?
-Frank
The post Secret in a Secret appeared first on PostSecret.
