Less stress, though your mountain of debt is growing? Be wary of data that doesn’t make sense. Dig deeper.
Second Chances
“I didn’t think there were second chances. Not really,” he said to me on the phone. It was a friend I hadn’t talked to in some time. He sounded happy. He’d been through a lot in recent years – divorce, layoff, financial problems. And after five years, at the age of 50, he’d met someone […]
Single Parent Guilt, Seth Godin’s Egg
If you’re a parent, then you feel guilty. About something. Especially if you’re a single parent. So, can anything good come of parental guilt? Is guilt telling me something I need to hear?
Personal politics, urban dictionary style, six ways from Sunday.
Yep. I love Urban Dictionary. It suits me, despite the fact that its lingo is harder to master than a Slavic soumise. But I can live and learn, look and learn, listen and learn. And examine our political landscape with fresher (albeit irreverent) eyes six ways from Sunday. This morning, staring down a stack of […]
Pas de nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles? Not always.
“Pas de nouvelles… bonnes nouvelles, comme dit le proverbe.” No news is good news, as the proverb says. But is the proverb true? Or is no news just… no news? No news is no news In the case of an overseas friend who hadn’t written or called in awhile, it was true. Tout allait bien; […]
Admittedly, Tuesday…
Morning musing from an aching place.
More real than celebrity. A friend’s passing.
First Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett, and then Michael Jackson. Each celebrity death, eclipsing the next, with the media storm over Jackson taking on a life of its own. As we knew it would. Yes, each of these three celebrities contributed to their industries in significant ways, impacted lives and memories of different generations, and […]
Pop culture loses icons, but what are we really grieving?
What is it that touches us so deeply when we lose our pop culture icons? Losing celebrities Certainly, when celebrities pass away, we grieve the loss of talent. And we grieve for people we grew up wanting to emulate – watching, hearing, and admiring during impressionable years. We are also fascinated by celebrity, with those […]
Sex and the Single Parent: Too Much Sex or Not Enough?
Sex and the single parent. Is there such a thing as too much? As not enough? As the single mother of teenage sons, what message do I send if my love life is a revolving door? And what message do I send if there are no examples of casual dating, sexual contact, falling in love, […]
Word: Le mot juste ou juste un mot
It must be morning, somewhere. But not here. Where then? Where I am. Here. Now. This place. In your head ? Word. What? Word. You know – “you’re good, you’re fine.” WORD. What does that mean? I just told you. You’re good. You’re fine. Well said. Mais qu’est-ce que tu as ? T’as oublié tes medicaments, toi ? […]