One Life to Live – And it’s not a daytime drama! (or maybe it is!) “Every ending is a beginning to something.” We don’t often know exactly what it is. Ah Yes. So beautiful. So, poetic. Deep. Also… hella unhelpful when your life feels like it is falling apart. It is true. In this life, …
This is some special kind of exhaustion that is coming from trying to stay positive when life is doing the absolute most. I mean, let’s be honest, sometimes life lately isn’t just hard. It often feels impossible to stay positive when everything around you feels like it’s falling apart. Not just in my world, but …
Somewhere inside all of us lives our wounded inner child. She’s (or HE’s!) small. (Well not anymore, especially in that midsection.) Emotional. Possibly wearing pajamas at noon. Whispering, “You know what would fix this? Some toll house cookies! Or brownies!” Not one brownie. A whole ass pan of brownies! Warm. Fresh out of the oven. …
Anyone ever see or remember the movie “Dazed and confused?” It was this coming-of-age film, “capturing the aimless, hazy last day of school in 1976 for a group of Texas teens focusing on the transition from childhood to adulthood, exploring themes of freedom, boredom, friendship, and identity through interconnected vignettes of cruising, partying, and rebellion.” …
#GOALS. This project has been three years in the making. The idea was suggested to me by a writer/producer/director friend, former employer and mentor, Joel Soisson, who graciously offered his services to me shortly after I lost my Noodle. I attempted to enlist the services of two other producers, but one got busy and one …
The consumers are being consumed! This is kinda a two-fer. The other day my daughter and I were driving past Aldi and I mentioned that I had read how much of the food there is labeled bioengineered. Without missing a beat she said, “Yeah, but it’s cheap. That’s all some people can afford.” And she’s …
So, I finally got new glasses. Because I thought, you know…“How deep do these forehead creases need to get?” What I did NOT realize is that the new glasses came with a free trial of emotional devastation. The moment I put them on, I looked in the mirror and whispered, “Oh… so we’re just doing …
Well, it’s that time of year again. The first quarter of the year! Where the gym is flooded with good intentions. All the New Year’s resolutions fill the treadmills. Workouts take longer because you’re waiting on machines, meanwhile the person on the machine is sitting there and only exercising their thumbs. Don’t get me wrong, …
Retirement was supposed to mean slow mornings, coffee sipped instead of inhaled, hobbies, peace, sketching, writing, minding my business and in a rush to go nowhere! Instead, retirement said, “Sorry Sis! Plot twist.” (I am guessing such is the case for many older adults.) Because apparently groceries and healthcare got together behind our backs and …
Last week I wrote a post, and I said: Courage now doesn’t look like jumping without a net. It looks like me and my trusty notebooks, my investment spreadsheet open, deep breaths taken and still saying to myself, “I believe in myself enough to try.” I promised myself that before my birthday, I would take …