Jan 20, 2022Adulting: Open Your Eyes, Sweetpea!I kept making one HUGE mistake in my recent self-defense class: I would throw my punches with my eyes closed. I guess I thought that by...
Jan 15, 2022Adulting: Rushing the Mundane...If I have a big pile of laundry in front of me, my energy is focused on getting those pieces folded and put away. And fast. I typically...
Jan 8, 2022Adulting and Encouragement: Journals and Jessica SimpsonInspiration to keep writing my story/my blog recently came from an unusual source: Jessica Simpson. This past year I listened to her book...
Dec 2, 2021Adulting: What Being Sleepy Taught Me....I mention in a previous blog entry that my psychiatrist issued me a challenge to stop napping. My current medicine (albeit helpful) was...
Nov 11, 2021Adulting: Stretching, but not in the Traditional Sense...I read this advice printed on the tab of my Dorset Cereal’s granola box: Today’s a day to chat to someone new. Or someone old. Or anyone...
Oct 6, 2021Adulting: Feeling Hollow....Like Bamboo?I’m taking a life lesson from bamboo. It started when a friend gave me a card gift set* that explains how bamboo is a “symbol of...
Sep 17, 2021Adulting: I Learn From Birds...I’m slightly obsessed with feeding the birds. I will always be a cat mama in my heart. But since my kitty passed away, I’ve found such...
Aug 27, 2021Adulting and Anxiety: Taking it Down to a Glow...My friend plays lullabies for her girls. The lyrics from one (composed by Christy Nockels) really stood out to me: Every day is shining...
Aug 13, 2021Adulting: Our life in Sunsets? Enchiladas? Cups of tea? If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I like to put up monthly quotations on my Instagram and Facebook page. And for the...