I’m a little late on this angle, but I would like to share my entry for the Annual Holiday Letter. I have another entry that I was going to post as A Year in Review but I stumbled on these “10 Simple Steps” for creating this traditional “message.” The article itself hails from 2011 so … Continue reading Holiday Letter 2024
Life
Life is Too Short to Have a Bad Cart
The end of 2024 is nigh and another year is impatiently rapping at our doors. I just went back and re-read last year’s entry, which just so happened to be ON the 30th just like this one and this is entirely accidental. A year ago today I was anticipating a newly renovated bathroom – which … Continue reading Life is Too Short to Have a Bad Cart
The Nuclear Option
Twelve days ago I decided to go dark. By the time I got here, I was already over it, six ways to Sunday. The stress, the anger, the division, the constant fear-bombing. I woke up early on November 5th, eager to cast my vote once and for all, to seal the coffin of my anxiety. … Continue reading The Nuclear Option
Lessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pr1_v7hsw I heard this Foreigner song on the radio the other day. Takes me back to high school, on the sports bus on our way home from a wrestling meet. Todd and I might have been sitting together snuggling in the darkened bus, the rumbling white noise of the engine, surrounded by hushed voices and … Continue reading Lessons
The Sands Are Shifting
There are days I feel like my head is down to the pavement and I’m plowing ahead on autopilot, and then there are the days – ever increasing – where something is working spiritually behind the scenes and more and more I am feeling and becoming something unspoken. Something propelled by unconscious, unseen forces and … Continue reading The Sands Are Shifting
Another Trip Around the Sun
Celebrated another trip around the sun and shamelessly posted the best selfie I could take in a GenX group, along with dozens of fellow Geminis. I don’t recall seeing so many birthday posts over the year and of course it would be all us Geminis who crave attention and affirmations of aging well. I’m not … Continue reading Another Trip Around the Sun
A Good Place
I dreamed the other night that I was in Martha Stewart’s house cleaning up piles of dog poop. It wasn’t even my dog’s poop. It wasn’t even Martha’s dog’s poop. The culprit was one of Martha’s friends’ dogs. The next thing I know I’m thoroughly scrubbing her bathroom because it’s dirty. Apparently Martha’s standards are … Continue reading A Good Place
Full Moon Shenanigans
The Full Moon Energy post was missing the very best part of my week! I cannot believe I already forgot about Betty. Had an adventure this morning It was scary And sad Oh? Shug still alive? Yes, lucky for her As I was leaving for work this morning, among a series of … Continue reading Full Moon Shenanigans
Full Moon Energy
It’s been a while so let’s just jump right in. Not much changes, really, except that apparently my Easter gift to the neighborhood rabbits is tulips. All but one of them, from my observation. The lone tulip resides in the backyard, which is about as safe to a rabbit as swimming in the Nile. Shuggie … Continue reading Full Moon Energy
Three Years Later: Who Loves a Parade?!
Three years since March 12, 2020, when everyone was talking about this mysterious illness that no one knew anything about other than it was potentially deadly. It was three years ago on a Thursday that Veruca’s school announced a two-week closure starting Monday, when I decided that she wasn’t going to school on Friday. Three … Continue reading Three Years Later: Who Loves a Parade?!
The Tara Chronicles 