Photo by Karolina Grabowska: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cardboard-box-on-dark-wooden-table-near-tape-and-scissors-4498152/ by Katrina Wightman I started the process of sorting through our stuff for our next move. We will have been back stateside for almost a year by the time we leave. Being in the states has made it possible for me to visit my family numerous times, for which IContinue reading “Moving again”
Category Archives: Life Lessons
Pleasant Pace Produces Progress
Strong ID
My musing this morning unearthed a memory of a story I wrote in high school. Our assignment was to take a short story and rewrite the ending. I chose a story by one of my favorite authors. I chose “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe. In the original story a groupContinue reading “Strong ID”
Silver Linings
It has been a tough week for tires in my family. Last Tuesday my daughter had a blowout and we ended up needing to replace all her tires. Yesterday I hit a pot hole and ended up with a flat tire. There have been times in my life when these would have been major stressContinue reading “Silver Linings”
Red Cowboy Boots
I had a dream the other night. Most of it faded as I woke up but I remember the last bit quite distinctly. My mother, father, and I were walking in a city somewhere. My mother was dressed in a red western shirt, jeans, and red cowboy boots. My father was wearing jean shorts, aContinue reading “Red Cowboy Boots”
Decisions… Decisions
Yesterday I talked about the decisions or choices we make every day. How one should strive to choose the choice that make the world a better place. In presenting my ideal theory I briefly mentioned the fact that it would not be an easy thing to do. Well this morning my brain was thinking moreContinue reading “Decisions… Decisions”
Morning Musing
She lived and loved in a way that the world’s is better for her having been in it. As I sit drinking my coffee this morning on the cozy reading chair snuggled with my cat butterscotch the cool crisp fall air coming through the open window past my other cat Archie, this, I thought isContinue reading “Morning Musing”
Forty
I turned 40 in August. It has been an amazing and transformative year for me. My life has changed in many unexpected and wonderful ways. I have both grown as a person and become more accepting of who I am. I feel more at home in my skin than I have ever before in myContinue reading “Forty”
Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning evokes images of clearing clutter from dusty closets. Going through the mounds of accumulated junk we as humans tend to collect and evaluation of said junk to determine its value. To do this we ask ourselves questions. Do we ever use it? How often? Is there something else that does the same thing?Continue reading “Spring Cleaning”
Do Nothing Days
I have struggled with anxiety all my life. Fortunately, I have learned skills to help my deal with it and most people who know me don’t have any idea that this is a struggle for me. Those closet to me have seen it when I have not been doing a good job of self-care but I tryContinue reading “Do Nothing Days”