I’m sorry for the crickets this last month. In my last post, Moving Forward, I was quite ambitious about keeping the ball rolling on the writing process, but sometimes life has other plans and if you don’t roll with the punches, you get snowballed under and can’t breathe. Sometimes a friend calls and asks for… Continue reading Heartache and Compassion
I'm watching it fitfully try to snow outside while I sit at my desk and drink a mug of aromatic peppermint tea. In the background, the dryer's humming, and the cat's howling from the stairs because the full standard poodle we're dog sitting is staring at him from the bottom step. Eventually, my cat will… Continue reading What Do You See?
One: Working the next nine days straight. Yuck! Two: Company in town. Yea! Three: Husband having surgery. Yippee! After a year of pain, he’ll finally be able to move his neck. Hospital, yuck. But it’s only for a short time. Add one plus two plus three and we get my brain and time not focused… Continue reading It Comes in Threes
We’re buying a h-h-house. *Waves hands in the air like a mad woman* Just realized the chaos that ensues. Imagine the cartoon that’s stuck its finger in a light socket. Hair two feet in all directions, perfectly on end, and muscle spasms from too much to do in too little time. I will refrain from… Continue reading Chaos
Ever read something that made you sit back and think, 'wow, I need to think on this one'? Awhile ago my sister sent me a blog link that made me think this. The blog uses this story to make its point: "...a professor who held up a jar of rocks to his class. He asked them, is… Continue reading The Big Rocks