Apathy Have you ever experienced periods of time when you’re so tired you can’t string together a cohesive thought? When even sleep is elusive? Have you ever felt so emotionally drained that your goals fade, your efforts feel increasingly irrelevant, and an insidious voice in your head tells you not to care? I came out […]
Do you work too hard?
Yesterday, I mused on the conflicted feelings I have about my son working so hard in his high school program. Watching your child sit up most or all of the night, studying, is not the worst thing in the world. But it can be a concern, when you see it happening a good deal. My […]
Parenting Without a Safety Net
Your credentials, please? Parenting may be a profession – and certainly is, in my view – but there are no guarantees, no cap and gown after years of study. No diploma. No certification. Just a physician handing over a squalling little creature that owns your heart. And then it’s off to the races, figuring it […]
Reading Between the Lines
Competition and Coexistence, Print vs. Online One evening last week, I attended a panel discussion that included several notables in the world of interior design and fashion, including journalists. The panel discussion focused on the intersection of design services, magazines, and online venues, blogging in particular, in the world of style. One of the participants […]
WooHoo!! (Sky rockets in flight!)
Sky rockets in flight! (No nasty bugs in sight… ) Let’s raise a toast (regardless of the hour) to fab friends and their good graces. No more bad clothing (or lack of cherries) around these here parts. A HUGE merci to a lovely woman with magic in her fingers, patience in her persona, determination in […]
MalWare, Bad Style, Bad Sonnets, Great Cherries
Did someone say life was a bowl of cherries? Sonnets save the day when technology trashes it!
Just another Murphy’s Law sort of day?
Nothing like a full week of roller coaster fun! (I won’t even begin to tell you the latest… ) Let’s just say, if my entire head of (luscious, stunning, gorgeous, flowing) hair wasn’t already white, it is now. But hey, who says a white haired Lilliputian writer isn’t chic chic chic? (I’ll need higher heels, […]
When Marriage Ends And You Don’t Know Why
Why a marriage ends: Sometimes not knowing is worse than knowing.
Mini-Mom moves mountain! (Splendid son smiles.)
Screw Sisyphus. What’s the best way to push a boulder up a mountain? Just say no. Mountain? What mountain? More than one way to skin a cat I’m in a mixing metaphors mood, a never-say-die frame of mind. Sweetly satisfied and smiling, though the hours ahead are not without significant challenges. (As have been the […]
The one-two punch. She’s down! She’s up! She’s down! Do we call the bout?
Rough week. Of course, you know that, and I managed to get by with a little help from my friends. But it’s enough already! Okay. Apparently not. I was down. I was up! And then I was down again. Sucker punch. Yesterday, not even 24 hours after the last technology disaster, some nasty Trojan decimated […]