Do not buy this. If you buy this you will eat the whole bag during the ride home from the grocery store. Even if you tell yourself you are just testing one bite to see if it’s any good. By the time you spend 15 minutes shoveling it by the handful into your mouth, it […]
Just about this time last year I had a great idea for a series of blog posts. I had been all single girl, girl power, makingitonmyownjustfinethankyouverymuch for quite a while, and the question on the tip of everyone’s tongue was, annoyingly enough, “So, are you dating?” So I thought to myself, I shall sign up […]
I find myself, for the first time in many years, facing the year end with not a glimmer of “Good Riddance” in my mind. Imagine me, if you will, furiously knocking on wood while I tell you this. It is not in my nature to count blessings out loud, lest whoever is in charge of […]
I may have mentioned this before, but I am a big fan of the whole “love” thing. Everyone should have some. Ideally lots. I am a little worried however, about the KIND of “love” that modern society is celebrating, especially for the young folks out there. How is any of this painting a pretty picture of […]
In an attempt to make the most of my extra hour today I did some purging around the house. (To be totally honest I slept through the extra hour…and maybe a couple of other hours…but THEN I wanted to be productive.) I started out innocently putting the Halloween decorations away. Then I saw the extra trick […]
I am bored with gratitude. I know it’s good for me to be all appreciative and whatnot. Yay for what I have. It’s all good. But I want to be in a place where I don’t have to trick myself into being happy with all the riches of day-to-day life. Where my kids say “We […]
On February 9, 2010 as part of my 43 Resolutions project (sad, failed, abandoned project) I wrote: Maybe each person only gets so much good stuff and if you try to get more than what you’ve got coming, you lose somewhere else. Right now I’ve got: health, home, reasonable financial security, a great family, etc… […]
I am not a fan of danger. Or fear. Some people are exhilarated by danger. It energizes them. Pushes them on to bigger and better things. These are the people who go to Haunted Houses and horror movies. For fun. I am not one of those people. Me? I just get scared. Immobilized. I know […]
Two years ago – I started the new year with a lengthy list of resolutions and a plan to tweak my already not-too-bad life into perfection. One year ago – I waited for my husband to tell me when he was moving out and wondered how I was going to make it through the year. […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Have you heard? Santa is coming. Good old Santa, who can make anything happen. Anything. Scads of parents across the globe are currently in the throes of panic as they attempt to find a way to make dreams of magic come true. Ways to make sure that […]
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