Welcome To My World

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Sherri Matthews

September already and here we are. Greetings once again, dear friends, I hope you enjoyed a good summer, pandemic aside. My plans went awry then revived and I am writing, mending and walking again. Progress! Great to return to Unsung Heroes at Carrot Ranch. My post explores a personal take on lockdown, Asperger’s Syndrome and social anxiety in a different world. As always, keep safe ❤

About Sherri Matthews

Sherri is a British writer working on her second memoir while seeking publication of her first. Her work has appeared in magazines, anthologies and online as well as long/shortlisted and special mentioned in contests. Once upon a time and for twenty years, she lived in California. Today, she lives in England with her human family, owned by two black cats.
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11 Responses to Welcome To My World

  1. Charli Mills says:
    September 2, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    Hi Sherri, thanks for a brave column, sharing insights from our hero, V!

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  2. Marie A Bailey says:
    September 3, 2020 at 12:31 am

    Sherri, thank you for sharing your and V’s story. You touch so eloquently on the tension so many of us are feeling, and that V lives with every day.

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  3. Andrea Stephenson says:
    September 7, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    An insightful, thoughtful and moving post Sherri. Like you, I’m feeling reluctance to go out – I wonder where we’ll be this time next year.

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    • Sherri Matthews says:
      September 17, 2020 at 4:58 pm

      Hi Andrea, lovely to find your comment here today, huge apologies for my late reply. Such strange times these are and who knows day to day anymore? I’m glad you enjoyed the post, thank you for reading. I look forward to catching up with you asap, and hope you are keeping safe and well, my friend.

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  4. MikeM says:
    September 12, 2020 at 9:10 am

    You are a hero!

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  5. Ste J says:
    September 16, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    Great piece, lots to reflect on, and great to see you back as well, my friend.

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    • Sherri Matthews says:
      September 17, 2020 at 5:06 pm

      Hi my friend, great to see you again, I have been absent for one reason or another as you know, slow start back up but I am still standing, ha. I’ll be over to catch up with you asap. There is a lot to reflect on, I feel I need to write more on this… Thank you for reading in my absence.

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  6. Sean P Carlin says:
    September 23, 2020 at 12:32 am

    I’m so grateful to have discovered your blog, Sherri, after you popped by mine for a visit!

    I’ve spent the past six months here in Los Angeles exploring this new interminable reality through my own blog, and trying to find a path forward through it. I can at least say it’s been a period of renewed appreciation for the virtues of kindness, patience, human contact, and moral imagination. What things might look like on the other side of this I can’t speculate (it’s hard to predict how pandemic-induced PTSD will affect things moving forward), but I hope we at least emerge a more empathetic people — more sensitive to the everyday realities of those unlike us.

    Until then, all we can do is use the tools of communication we have at our disposal to express ourselves as honestly as possible. If this post is any indication, your blog will be one to follow…

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