Waiting, attitude adjustment and The Lion King
These days are finding me running from one thing to the next. I've come to rely on The Never-ending To-Do list, mainly because e.v.e.r.y.thing I can think of TO do must go on the list lest I forget; bathing and breathing included. Most...
The terrible, awful, very bad day
Yesterday the floodgates burst, and try as I might to dam them, they were unstoppable force. Today, if you look closely, swollen eyelids testify. My breakdown was precipitated by Perfect Storm– Discovery of losing an $850 porcelain crown A friend...
And the Oreck Magnesium winner is….
Lucky number 858! Which meant I had to scroll through a LOT of pages of comments before I arrived at the winner's name. This is when numbered comments come in really handy! I wish I could see her face when she realizes she just won a $600 vacuum combo...
A wrinkle in time
No matter the extreme measures you use to prevent aging, it’s going to happen. It’s natural. And sometimes the more you resist, the faster those changes seem to occur, don’t they? But I’ve come up with a way to win this battle; when wrinkles burrow and shape...
One Sentence Saturday #1
I was so forgetful during pregnancy, one day I forgot to wear a bra to work. (click image for explanation) Your turn! Remember to visit your linky neighbors!!...
Introducing…a REALLY fabulous, fun, fast blogging thing: One Sentence Saturday
If you’re a blogger and you’re like me, you’re mentally composing THE BEST POST YOU’VE EVER WRITTEN at the most random of times–in the shower, tossing and turning in the middle of the night, when you’re driving–only to have...
What you do 12 days before you move to Germany…
Tick tick tick… Can you hear it? Because I do, and it's loud and relentless…. Time. Ticking. Away. My life as I know it will monumentally change 12 days from now and I am feeling its enormity. After 19 years in the paper industry, my...
Eventually I get to the point; it ends in haiku
Early on in blogging, before there were such things as intention beyond spilling random thought, building your brand, or sponsored posts and giveaways, when everyone read everyone else’s blog and actually commented (gasp!), before Facebook and Twitter and...
So much more than a dream: A must-read for today
I felt like my public education utterly failed me when I discovered Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” a few years ago; it’s long but rivals the significance of his more popular and iconic “I have a dream”...