Throw up and Scream Therapy
Now, I’m still lovin’ Charlotte, but moving is stressful. Moving 2000 miles from home without your beloved spouse is lonely and a bit terrifying. I’ve been over-emotional, doing things like...
View ArticleSnow Day Insights
It snowed today. Big, white, fluffy, cold, cotton-balls fell from the sky for about two hours. I was enchanted and afraid at the same time. What if I got snowed in? Would I run out of food? Would...
View ArticleAgent Pink Floyd Space Boots
Today, I walked five miles… in the rain… to the dentist. It didn’t start out that way. I took the bus from the mall across the street, which took me three miles toward my destination. The connecting...
View ArticleThe Ageless Soul and Squirrels
If you are somebody who loves languorous reads, I can’t recommend enough the journals of May Sarton. While her prose is easy and relaxing, her words reflect (and inspire) a vivid, active, inner life:...
View ArticleLincoln Walks
Saw “Lincoln” last night. I have lots of things to say about it. I want to urge you to see it. But I’ll let the poet do it. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight BY VACHEL LINDSAY (In Springfield,...
View ArticleLoneliness, Gossip, Over-Communicating, and Lies
I had a long conversation with a good friend today. She shared some fear about her relationship with another friend, who recently indicated, (indirectly) that she couldn’t handle discussing a certain...
View ArticleI Love a Rainy Night
It’s pouring here in my new home of Charlotte, North Carolina. Unlike Phoenix “rain”, the water keeps coming down! What fun! Such weather takes me back to high school. Eddie Rabbit’s “I Love a Rainy...
View ArticleOrder, Chaos, and Impact
For art is order, but it is made out of the chaos of life. -May Sarton Chaos! It is so easy. It just happens unless one is constantly on top of things;maintaining, cleaning, sorting. Cooking,...
View ArticleMermaids and Holes
It’s good to be living in a coastal state again. Last time, it was California…a failed attempt to establish a satisfying relationship with my father, but a rich experience, professionally. I became a...
View ArticleToo Sexy for the President
Back in the days when President Clinton’s Impeachment trials were the main news story, I was watching television with my 93 year-old grandmother. A dyed-in-the-wool Irish Catholic Democrat, she loved...
View ArticleBeauty and the Beasts
Spring is certainly a vastly different experience in N.C. than it was in Phoenix. For one thing, everything, except the dazzling array of flowers, is green; the grass, the bushes, the trees, the...
View ArticleMy List
I love reading other people’s planners, lists, and schedules. One of the highlights of my month is reading the “My List” column in Harper’s Bazaar. It is simply a list of things a certain designer...
View ArticleThe Power of a Secret Group
Yesterday, I was inducted into a “secret group,” and suddenly, I felt more interesting. My brain doesn’t know, or care, that it’s really just a Facebook Blogging Group. Nor does it care that the only...
View ArticleI’ve Been Thinking of You…
my readers. Yes, I have. Ever since I joined that secret group, blogging feels more like writing to a pen pal. I’m more relaxed, somehow and I just want to tell you about my day. I braved the...
View ArticleBusiness Cards and Titles
I want…a card. I want something to give people who ask me where they can read my tea reviews. I want a token to offer when I meet someone struggling with depression or some other inner pain…a token...
View ArticleThe Ghost of my Uterus
Ten years ago this month I had a radical hysterectomy. Gifted Scottsdale surgeon Dr. Jean Moon untangled my insides, separating endometrial tissue from my colon and bladder, which were bound to my...
View ArticleShould I Make This a Disability Blog?
The content of this article in “Ouch” is something I have thought about for a long time. Viewpoint: Do famous role models help or hinder? Like the writer, Mark Brown, suggests, I get discouraged when...
View ArticleSpying on my Neighbors
A little tortoise-shell cat hangs around our apartment lately. She is in heat. Fortunately, her mews are short and quiet. I once had a cat that howled when in a similar state. It was finals week...
View ArticleBee Bop Photo Essay
I was taking pictures of roses, and this little bee just flew into the frame… Filed under: Home Tagged: beauty, bee, gratitude, Mother Nature, photo, roses
View ArticleLetting Go is Hard to Do
Why is letting go so freakishly hard for me? And by “letting go” I mean a certain mental letting go of my “agenda.” “Agenda” is a powerful word in this context because I often feel I don’t have...
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