Tag: life
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Confessions of an Imperfect Mother
Let’s just get this out of the way right now. I’m not a perfect mother. I don’t strive for it, because during my first attempt I compared myself to my other friends who had their shit together, while I kept trying and drove myself batty trying to keep up with their cooking and organizational skills. …
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What Love Isn’t and When to Know the Difference
Have you ever covered up pain in ways that make no sense to others, but perfect sense to you? Run. Struggle. Sleep. Repeat. Those are the things I did to keep myself together. I did this in my first marriage. It didn’t work. I also applied this to my second marriage. Clearly, I didn’t learn…
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A Retrospective Look on the Haves and Have Nots From My Childhood
A lesson on gratefulness I didn’t go hungry, I always had a roof over my head and clothes on my back, but there are other ways I realized my parents were frugal. I am forever grateful for what they did provide me, but living in the world we live in now with every child wanting…
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The Things I Couldn’t Explain on Facebook
Sorry for not replying sooner Sometimes the most hurtful comments come from the people closest to you, but for me, it came from an acquaintance. In Jess Ekstrom’s Chasing the Bright Side, she says we have a box in our brains labeled “Things that Will Never Happen to Me Move On!…they are events that have…
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Following My Heart’s Desire
What makes your heart flutter? Writing is my answer. I’ve got to tell you something. I’ve been busy writing. Not only that, but I can say I’ve written every day and I’m not just talking about the essays or that book I’ve referred to so many times (which is on the back burner). I’ve been…
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TBH
Thoughts from a 40-Something When I was 15 years old, I thought 30-year-olds were old AF. This is when summers lasted forever and an hour felt like 10. And the age when I thought what I wore would make or break my day with the in-crowd. Those days are long gone. I’m well past 30,…
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I Am…
I once made a list of all the I ams I was and all the I ams that I want to be. It was a two-column list in smallish writing. I’ve lost the list, but I remember writing, “I am a sheep owner.” Let me explain. I am a knitter. I started out with that…
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Things Remembered
I’m once again drifting back to thoughts about my dad. His face stares back at me through the light blue eyes of older men who live in and around Citrus County, Florida. They share an age bracket driving around in antique cars like my dad once did and gesturing with their hands just as he…
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What’s Your Frequency?
Unfortunately new stresses were added to the plate during the months of February and March and after wading through the storms of fear particularly with the unknown I had to just STOP! Going through another bout of depression and being completely aware how I silently suffer through it makes me feel like a big pain…
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