There is a squirrel outside my window who lives a more decisive life than most humans I know. Not a better life. Not a more comfortable one. But definitely a more committed one. I mean being a squirrel is basically a full-time job of split-second, life-or-death decision making. Every. Single. Day. All Day! Cross the …
Where are my 70’s people? There was a song by BT Express in the early 70’s called “Do it.” (You know that period where all the best music was created!) Anyway, the first few lyrics were, “Ooh go on and do it. Do it. Do it til you’re satisfied. Whatever it is, do it! Do …
I’m in full closet clean-out mode. You know the ritual. The seasonal migration. Winter clothes go into exile, stuffed into plastic bins like they did something wrong, and spring/summer gets resurrected. I got rid of four Amazon bins of clothes in 2024. FOUR! That felt like growth. Healing. Personal evolution. I let go of a …
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 …