My year-end wrap up (12/31/2014)
It’s hard to believe that 2014 is well, over. This year has flown by – but every year has gone by at warp speed since I have officially become an adult. Officially being an adult means, I have to pay...
View ArticleSettle for More (April 1, 2015)
A friend and I were chatting one night, catching up on things and the conversation turned to our usual wistful, wishful discussion of how life was really going. You know, the real conversation that...
View ArticleThe Insomniac’s Hypothesis
I am deeply envious of those who get a full night’ sleep. Lately, I have been able to only sleep for a few hours, wake at 2 a.m. (give or take a quarter) and then lie there, tossing and turning, sleep...
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“What was Thanksgiving like when you were a little girl?” Cole asked as I was making plans for this week. “It was nice,” I said, before I gave it much thought. “Just nice? Was it different in any...
View ArticleSo long, 2015
2015, I am glad to see you leave. I wish I could say it’s been fun, but it hasn’t. The past 12 months haven’t been horrible, but, they just haven’t gone as I thought they would. I had goals. I had...
View ArticleThe first ever non-diet resolution (1/6/2016)
This is maybe the first ever time I have not started the New Year with some grand resolution of losing at least 10 pounds. It’s not because I didn’t really make “resolutions” this year, but because I...
View ArticleForgiveness is harder than it sounds
I am going to admit something not too pretty here: I have a hard time with forgiveness. I can hold a grudge and think up reasons to not forgive someone all day long. It’s not healthy, I know. And...
View ArticleNot for the faint of heart
I remember the day I turned 29. It was 16 years ago – yikes, that’s hard to believe. But the day I turned 29, I took the day off from work. I worked out twice that day, hoping to fight off the effects...
View ArticleA modern-day impropriety
According to my dear, crazy redheaded Mama, the end of civility fell upon my generation. Hers, she claims, had a sense of decency. “We didn’t talk the way you and your friends do. It was unheard of,”...
View ArticleDiffering opinions
A friend of mine commented on Facebook the other day that he noticed a few people had unfriended him because of a political post he had shared. I missed the post – I am trying to stay off Facebook for...
View ArticleAn untraditional tradition
I used to marvel at Granny’s Thanksgiving turkey-ing. Golden brown on the outside and moist and delicious inside. I had no idea how she did it, and she wasn’t sharing her secrets with anyone. Her...
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