What they never tell you in high school is this: the friends you find here will not always be found. Some will be lost along the way-- some among the walkways of school, some after you walk out the doors for the last time, some after you leave a college campus, and some after a... Continue Reading →
Dealing with Emotions
I felt it more this week-the rising tide of anger washing over tired bones and a weary soul that had stuffed it down, deep into the depths of the sea of emotions for too long. I could feel it as my usual sarcastic barbs with co-workers had more of a sting than I intended. Could... Continue Reading →
The Pearl
They don't teach it in schools anymore--even if they ever did. The way humans settle, sink into a conversation like a pebble into a lake after it's skipped the glassy surface several times, reaching new depths of that lake, new depths of the people who are conversing together. And out from amid the murky waters... Continue Reading →
Lessons from a Little Black Puppy–Part Two
It really astounds me how loyal dogs are. How we can usher them into a crate for hours while we go to work or go have fun, and they'll still be there, waiting. Wagging their tails as we enter through the door once again, smiling as we shower them with pets and love and kisses... Continue Reading →
Lessons from a Little Black Puppy–Part One
I've always had the innate sense that motherhood is hard. Maybe it was seeing how hard my own mother worked to take care of my little brother and me. Maybe it was playing mother hen to thirty-something band kids as a drum major back in high school. Maybe it was my own fears of one... Continue Reading →
Dawn to Dusk
(a response piece to Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay") My day was starting whenever the famous line fluttered around my head: "dawn goes down to day / nothing gold can stay." And in the flash of an instant, I realized this valuable lesson: day will always give to dusk, and dusk will always give... Continue Reading →
22
22 things I have learned in my life thus far: 1. Life is beautiful. 2. Life is ugly. 3. Family is important, so cherish it. 4. Take care of yourself--eat well, exercise, get some needed rest. For when you cover the basics, you'd be surprised at how great you will feel and how much you... Continue Reading →
(Super?)woman
Maybe I give, and I give, and I give until I have nothing to give away . . . and maybe that makes me a great person to others and a bad person to myself, but I can't help the satisfaction of feeling needed, of giving so I can make the lives of others easier.... Continue Reading →
Love (Wine)
Was anyone ever going to tell me that love was messy? For the better part of my life, I thought love was a guaranteed Cinderella fantasy, complete with a Prince Charming dressed handsomely in a black tux who cries as he watches you walk down the aisle on the very day you have dreamed of... Continue Reading →
Laundry Detergent
I am low on laundry detergent right now. That's it--that's the punchline. But really it's a metaphor for how the past couple of days, I've been low on energy. Tired. Emotional. Overwhelmed. Overthinking. Anxious. Things that are never a good combination. Things that make being low on laundry detergent seem like a dramatic flare to... Continue Reading →
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