Today is my 45th birthday and while I normally would have been running all over town celebrating the entire month, as I have indicated before, this year has been so different for me. So, today will be a much quieter, more introspective birthday but my gratitude for having made it to this day and for…
2014 has not exactly started out the way that I had envisioned it….remember this? I was so geeked to own this friggin year. And while these first couple of months of 2014 have really beat me, they haven’t broken me. So, I have had to regroup. My health has been/is challenging. My heart has been…
Saturday is my grandfather’s funeral. The day he died, my sister and I were going to visit him in Louisiana. I am struggling in my heart with the pain of knowing that I had said that I was going to visit but had put it off more than once and now we are here… I…
Who doesn’t have a list of things that they want to do before they leave the planet? I know I do, and it is LONG! In the past few years, I have already ticked off some of the items on my list, like going white water rafting, something that always intrigued and terrified me because…
It’s the beginning of a brand new year, a fresh 365 to do as The Big O(prah) says “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” And cliches & cynicism aside (see my post about resolutions backlash and why it’s unnecessary), I don’t know how this time of year…
I am a collector of things. Like for example I love being able to throw a dinner party at a moments notice, so I have collected a pretty sizable collection of dishware, wine glasses, etc. over the years. And while most of it is currently sitting in storage, when I moved in with Joe I…