Am I the only one who gets annoyed when watching a movie or television show and a character says something along the lines of: “I promise, we’ll bring him back alive.” If it were me, the last thing I’d want to hear from the police is a promise to do something that is truly out of their control. I get …
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Brief brush with long-married couple an inspiration. I love love. I may not have had the best of luck with it, and I’m not without blame. Lately, more than ever, I believe that an amazing love is out there for me, and that hope will sustain me in the dark hours. This past week, I went out with friends to …
Getting weary of languishing
Is anyone else feeling down? Grieving your former life? Lacking purpose? Feeling untethered? If you are, you aren’t alone. There are a lot of stressors out there right now, including, but surely not limited to: bad weather this summer, COVID-19 screwing up our lives for two years, divisiveness as public policy, unexpected and unfair wars, losing rights that everyone thought …
Winning the Game of Life
When I was a tween, I remember playing the Game of Life board game. We’d cruise around the board in a convertible car, get married, have kids (sometimes twins) that would be represented by little pink and blue pegs in our cars. The goal was to retire with the most money. As I’m closer to retirement years than not, I …
You’re wonderful just the way you are
Life has been unkind to you as of late. I see that you are suffering and it hurts me to know that you are suffering. You don’t know what to do. Your thoughts spin. You see and feel the dark, the bad, the unfairness, and the hurt. You have every right to be hurt. You didn’t deserve this, but here …
Life 101: Joy is to be achieved, not stumbled upon
Will anyone ever feel like they’re caught up; even on top of things? Over and over, I hear people (especially mothers) saying how overwhelmed they are, how they feel like they are running a losing race. I get this. I feel this. I’ve even gone so far as to try to eliminate the word “overwhelmed” from my vocabulary, because it …
Live life in high-definition
Over the holidays, I spent a lot of time sick, and/or of nursing sick family members, which meant watching a lot of television. It was then, contemplating the new year we’re about to herald in, that my television viewing epiphany happened: life is better in High Definition (HD). We were introduced to the world of television with a few hours …
Quotes in Closing: all new for April 2009
Once again I’m back with quotes – this time focusing on learning, persisting, doing, leading, being, loving, and living. (only one repeat quote in the bunch) I get by with a little help from my friends
Quotes on learning, doing, being, persisting, loving, living, shining
Too many quotes to quote….