Yesterday was tense. Last night, even more so. Tornadoes and storms swept across the southern region of the US, leaving devastation and death in their wake. In my little neck of the woods, it was a day of darkening skies and flickering power surges. And waiting. And bracing. Just before dinner I inched my vehicle […]
Triggers
When moods are easily triggered by elements from our past.
Connection, Communal Living, and the Future
It may have been the second or third time I saw the show that I realized: communal living – family, friends, once-upon-a-time strangers – maybe this is the answer. The answer to keeping excitement in a household. The answer to empty nest. The infusion of energy and array of attitudes to fight the urge to […]
Guts
No time. No energy. No money. (And every other excuse in the book.) But they aren’t excuses. They’re resource constraints, I tell myself. It’s assessment time. Truth time. This is a period of transition for me, as I imagine it is for many of us who are between jobs, post marriages, about to enter a […]
Perfect (Sort Of)
Flash fiction: Perfect. Entirely up to us. Sort of.
Are You Emotionally Needy?
Differences in relationship style may be perceived as “neediness.” Or, maybe they are neediness.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Is it love? Is it money? Is it just a day or two to yourself? Is it something harder to generalize, impossible to articulate, or too private to admit to? Do you have a foolish little dream – or a glitzy big one – something from childhood – shelved and dusted off, shelved again, only […]
If you feel it, is it real?
Men and women. We’re so different. Women and women – biologically less so, yet in terms of character, nature, personality – I believe our differences are as broad and deep as those that separate the genders. I was looking over my musing of a few months back on the topic of what makes men tick. […]
Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover
You know the old adage – Don’t judge a book by its cover. In other words, we shouldn’t judge by appearances, though we know that first impressions count, that the public face is important to success in many areas, that social conventions serve their purpose. But is anyone ever who you think they are? Haven’t […]
Weepy
Good things are happening. Some I’ve written about, and others, I haven’t. I’m trying to process them, to manage them, to make adjustments. Some days I think I’m doing okay. Other days, not so much. Most of the time I have the sensation of treading water, sliding beneath the surface, gasping for air, then forcing […]