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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
With a Little Help From My Friends
Technology trauma Yesterday was rough. Very rough. It took more than five hours to write simply, about simplicity. What’s not to love about that? And I struggled through those hours, trying to avoid a total emotional meltdown due to a serious software snafu beyond my control. I persisted; stubbornness can be an asset. I wrote […]
Naming Conventions: Unconventional Nonsense?
River. Apple. Banjo. Sparrow. Diva Muffin? These are just a few of the odd celebrity names we might come across as we consume our daily pop culture media. What do you think? Would you do that to your kid? Or should I say “Kyd,” as in Kyd Duchovny (Tea Leoni and David Duchovny’s son)? Or […]
Weeds and blooms
What you notice first are weeds. Dandelions about to seed. A tangle of bushes at the base of an old post that holds the white mailbox. Aging exteriors Everything is dusted in pollen and overrun, yet it is not altogether unwelcoming. You deem it a place where an elderly widow must reside, living on a […]
Sweets
It was always a special morning. It required early rising, a hurried glance at the sky, and readying the chocolate eggs, the plastic eggs, and the painted hard-boiled eggs. There was coordination with other parents on the street – always a conspiracy concocted to keep our children distracted, and of course, a backup plan in […]