A Hopeful Beginning
For all my “it’s just a tick of a clock,” somewhere deep down, I think I expected magic with the dawn of 2012. Let’s face it, 2011 wasn’t a banner year in my household. I don’t know what I wanted to happen, but greeting the day with ever-increasing back pain, a toddler who prefers to [...]
The Tick of the Clock
Oh 2011. You brought me so many mixed blessings. You broke and mended and broke and mended and broke again until I felt certain that I would never survive the onslaught of mental, physical, and emotional pain heaped on my shoulders. You made me question everything I thought I knew about every thing and every [...]
Learning to Love the Fence
I’ve gotten in a bad habit lately of letting my dog out in the mornings to go to the bathroom. In and of itself, that sounds like a reasonable way to start his day, but the fact is, I don’t have a fenced in yard. Most days, my sweet older dog does his business in [...]
Seeing the Mermaid
When someone cheats on you, all the books, all your friends, and all the experts whisper that it is not your fault. They tell you that it is more about the cheater than the person they cheated on. They tell you the cheating stems from insecurity or inadequacy or some problem within the cheater. But [...]
Chasing a Rainbow
This has been one of those weeks where nothing seems to go right. Granted, it’s Friday and we made it this far, but it has just been a week where everything has gone wrong. On top of all my petty, insignificant problems, I have this friend… this stunningly gorgeous inside and out friend. She’s hilarious; sometimes [...]
My Box of Life
Some people laughingly repeat that life is like a box of chocolates, but I disagree. See, with a box of chocolates, you can sample back and forth, putting back the things you don’t like and starting a new. And when it’s all said and done, if you get to the end of the box, there’s always [...]
Invisible
Lately, I’ve started to embrace my invisibility. When I was younger and better put together, I didn’t like to blend in. I wanted to stand out, be noticed, be friends with all the best people and go to all the best parties. I wasn’t content with mediocrity; I wasn’t content with being a face in [...]
Gum would be Perfection…
There are two tupperware lids, that J calls “plates,” lying in the living room doorway. There are two dirty socks balled up on the floor, just next to two dirty, red shoes, haphazardly kicked off by haphazard little feet. Today’s clothes, size 2T, are strewn across the arm of the sofa and from my vantage [...]
When My Bankroll is Getting Small…
One of my favorite Christmas movies is Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. (Lord help me if they ever try to remake THAT.) I love the silly plot lines, I love the happy endings, and I love the music. If you haven’t seen the movie, at one point, Bing Crosby’s character is singing to Rosemary Clooney. The [...]
Choosing a Pacifier
Every night, my son goes to bed with a pacifier in his mouth, one in each hand, and a Mickey Mouse and a Panda stuffed animal somewhere in his bed. He’s often asked for more pacifiers but I draw the line at three. It never fails that every morning when he wakes up, Panda and [...]
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