14 Sep When Life Gets Out of Control
After some informal inquiries with many of my friends and acquaintances it would seem the consensus is...
After some informal inquiries with many of my friends and acquaintances it would seem the consensus is...
Where have I been? Better question, or maybe a statement, where I have I not been. I've been riding my bike by the ocean. I spent the fourth of July exactly how it should be spent, with friends on a boat. I treated my parents and...
Today was a bad day. The last few days I've been having an email battle with my ex over (what else?) money. It's ALWAYS about money. My ex makes more money than 99% of Americans and he will dicker with me over $90 for our...
I've been thinking a lot about time. I suppose fall does that to me. With all the leaves falling and the ground decaying under my feet. It's Mother Nature's most in-your-face reminder that time marches on, things change, release, fall away. And I suppose I...
This past weekend I was solo-parenting from Friday until Tuesday because my husband went to a destination bachelor party. I didn't dread this. Nor did I mind. But come Thursday of this week - after the solo pool trips, the solo grocery trips, the solo...
The kids' toys have invaded every room of my house and it's making me little crazy. Right now, there are three rooms in desperate need of painting, a brigade of dandelions invading my garden, and stacks of papers that have built up over a dreary,...
Today, I went to a second yoga session on my trip to Nicaragua. It will likely be my last here as we leave for home in a couple of days. It has been an illuminating, exciting and utterly exhausting trip. Caring for two toddlers is...
I read an article a couple of weeks ago that won't stop buzzing around in my brain like an irritating house fly. I feel the urge to pick at it like a ripe scab; take it apart, exam its premise and file it under nonsense....
I hate the word victim. To me, it evokes feelings of helplessness, weakness, passivity--of being life's doormat. All of these things stand in antithesis to how I see myself. I consider myself someone who takes control of their life. Someone who takes responsibility and makes...
[caption id="attachment_1618" align="alignright" width="1024"] Image credit- aswirly.com[/caption] It was just before midnight on that muggy August night. My windows were down. I took the winding back roads so that I could take my time, turn the radio up, and remember the feeling of the hot wind of my hometown...