There are people who follow directions, and there are those who take a more, shall we say, flexible approach. I am the latter. It’s not that I don’t like following instructions or heeding the advice of others. It’s not that I’m confident in my own abilities to complete the task…
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'” — Kurt Vonnegut Any minute now the door to my sons’ bedroom will swing open and the house will shift from calm…
January has been a long slog of a month. If there is one word that comes to mind when I think of the past four weeks, it is BLEH. This time of year I tend to fall into a pit of gloom. I feel edgy and irritable. Lethargic and lazy.…
Do you ever have those moments when you think to yourself, I have no freaking clue what I am doing and life is just so hard and I will never have anything figured out? If you answered yes, keep reading. I’ll let you in on a little secret. (If not,…
“Human kindness is overflowing And I think it’s going to rain today.” — Lyrics by Randy Newman Today is a rainy day. It started raining in the dark hours of night, rained all through the morning and now into the afternoon. The heavens, overflowing with emotion, have alternately sobbed…
Let’s be honest, this weather is absolutely BRUTAL. The end of a llloooonnnnggg holiday break is BRUTAL. And being cooped up in the house for days on end is BRUTAL. With the temperature about million degrees below zero, and given that we are buried under a mountain of snow, several…