What is it about a takeaway coffee cup? Expensive and environmentally unfriendly. The baby bottle of adults. Holding one evokes thoughts of yoga pants, entrepreneurs and baristas who become friends. Community. So much better than your favorite mug at home. Rainy days. “You’ve Got Mail”. Seattle. Paparazzi. As if anyone’s looking…
As you read this, where are your shoulders? I’m guessing up around your ears where most of us find them. I’ve noticed lately while sitting with Piper, our parrot, or watching TV that my shoulders are in the locked and upright position, or should I say uptight, position. I catch…
Step 1: Find miracle workers √ Step 2: Believe half-√ * Quote author unknown
I started this blog in 2010 when I was searching for a job during the country’s financial crisis. Back then, it was drilled into us that “It’s who you know” that will land you your next position. Recently I have realized that this doesn’t only apply to finding employment, it pertains…
Going out into our backyard to our trash cans around 9 p.m. one evening, it occurred to me that if I did not know the time I might have thought it was early morning before the sun came up. Any car noise was muted behind our house so that was…
“I can lose that chapstick four times in one day, Tom.”
My mom was a t-shirt and shorts or jeans kind of woman until her death at 79 and I have followed in her fashion footsteps. When she left this earth she left behind many tees proclaiming her love of her favorite sports teams, Ocean City, New Jersey and this country….
“None of us go to bed thinking that we won’t wake up in the morning. No matter what is on our calendar for tomorrow, those seconds before sleep are the most hopeful of our lives.” — Sister Rain
One out of five people ask me if I can drive when they first learn that I’m legally blind and every time they ask, it’s like they slapped me. I don’t let them see my reaction, but my visceral response takes all my power not to flinch. Is this the…
We all want R-E-S-P-E-C-T. But there’s something else I have been thinking a lot about lately: E-X-P-E-C-T. It’s a tricky word and one we don’t discuss. We aren’t supposed to openly expect things from others, from life, but instead be a gracious receiver of whatever comes our way. When it…
