My husband decided that he, too, wanted to clean out his clothes as I have been doing and was going through his neckties. As he made a pile of those he was ready to part with, I rolled and packed them for donation. I recognized a paisley print and remembered…
The thing about long-term, hard-fought, hurdle-after-hurdle, brick-wall-scab-on-your-forehead, hyphenated projects is that when things start happening, you may not be prepared. Instead, you may be surprised and a little overwhelmed. It’s scary to take a peek. What If after all your hard work it’s not right? It’s not what you envisioned?…
While doing some heavy-duty clothes cleaning out this week, I have made a shocking discovery. No, not my circa 1985 Air Supply concert t-shirt, but this: It’s not the machines nor the robots nor the zombies we should fear. It’s the hangers. And now that I have aggressively pared down…
One of the most challenging things for me to do is to plug things into an electric outlet. I do so much by touch but we are taught at an early age not to stick our fingers into sockets. So with the flashlight on my iPhone I struggle for minutes…
I just recently heard of the “Average of Five” rule which theorizes we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. After I learned of this concept, I purposely didn’t read the for and against arguments, as I wanted to think about it without influence….
Today we did Piper’s monthly weight check as he had gained some “gm’s” at his last annual well-check visit to the vet. We use an electronic kitchen scale and he is usually pretty cooperative about standing on it for the amount of time it takes to get a reading. We…
We have all heard that our lives may pass before our eyes when faced with our death. This life review is depicted in books and movies when a character is staring at the business end of a gun or being viciously attacked. It always seems to occur when danger is…
