I am fortunate to be friends with a lot of people of solid social and professional status. My friends include CEO’s, philanthropists, senators, lawyers and people for who fight for the inalienable rights of others. My friends also include misfits. The undesireables. They include musicians who really don’t make a firm living but sacrifice that […]
I’m sitting across from my daughter who is not so cheerily working on hour number one of about five hours of homework. She is texting her classmates back and forth because she needs a little help and solace and they’re mostly done. They’re done because they’re not the only freshman on the Junior Varsity Volleyball […]
I’m too old for this world. I’m not built for it. I travel around it wishing I had some kind of road map that would make navigation easier. Instead, I just bump into things along the way. I’ve come to the conclusion that I just have an old soul and it makes me feel like […]
There’s a older gentleman that does a lot of work in the community that I manage. His name is Ted and he comes by about once a week to drop off landscape plans he has drawn up for someone and many times I see him out my window and sigh because he’s a bit long […]
In the last year or so of my life, I have given away almost every part of me, like an emotional yard sale where everything could be haggled away. I have lost my focus, my heart, my drive, my pride, my voice, my self respect, my sanity. I have done things of which I’m not […]
I have made a serious decision and here it is: It’s time to stop being nice. That’s it. I’m about to burn a swath in my life and it needs to happen. I have come to realize that many of the issues I have in my life stem from being just too damn nice. Now, […]
I cry in church. Just about every time. It’s slightly embarrassing and I don’t know why I do it and I try to not make it noticeable when I do. Sometimes that’s easy and other times I just want to run out of the church. Church is new to me. I was never raised with […]
I feel like there should be bracelets that we can wear that have our neuroses stamped on them like bracelets diabetics wear to alert others of their medical condition. I just think this would make the world a much better place. Of course, this would mean that we would need to know and own our […]
I’m not looking to find an excuse to do anything anymore. Some things need no more justification than you want to do it. Not everything, but a good number. Those things you don’t think about. You just do it. This summer I jumped off a perfectly good, non-burning 22’ high bridge into the 42 degree […]
I’m a woman of obligation. I am a woman of should. I have spent most of my life doing what was expected. When I was 19, I got a job at a summer camp in the Poconos that would have given me a chance to drive across the country with people I barely knew. I […]