Vertigo: When the world around you begins to spin…
I woke up this morning with vertigo. When I sat up, the world starting spinning around me, and I had the sensation … Continue reading Vertigo: When the world around you begins to spin…
I woke up this morning with vertigo. When I sat up, the world starting spinning around me, and I had the sensation … Continue reading Vertigo: When the world around you begins to spin…
I confess. If I can go to bed before 9 p.m. each night, I do. While a football game for … Continue reading When the Christian life is a bit too much like a political debate…
The past week, the health club has blocked off the beautiful new showers for tile repair, and we women have … Continue reading Attempting “The Glad Game’…
I ran out of weekend. My eyes were bigger than the time I had allotted for the chores I wanted … Continue reading When your eyes are bigger than your weekend…
I was a teenager when I decided I should stop reading the Bible. I blame James. Or maybe my youth pastor, … Continue reading Do what you know is right…
I have spent the weekend denuding a room. I emptied the room of all its contents minus the large furniture … Continue reading When you replace people with possessions…
I call my husband’s truck “the mouse,” and now he does, too, at least every time he has to buy … Continue reading Of mice and men (or when you give a mouse a cookie)…
I had carefully planned and shopped and done everything in my power to avoid shopping on Christmas Eve. When our … Continue reading Once an English teacher, always an English teacher…
Personal blogging is more about changing my life — or recording my life lessons — than changing the world. It is certainly not about being discovered. It may be a side effect, but from what I’ve found, it’s 15 minutes of fame or less. Maybe 1.5 or 15 days of fame. Or less, much less. Continue reading I can’t wait to be discovered…
I’m still getting over the blessing of that extra hour I got on Sunday. Daylight Saving for 2015 ended Nov. … Continue reading That dubious gift of an hour…
I rushed to the gym this morning so I could stop sweating. Something is wrong with that. Maybe this picture … Continue reading No AC November?
Should I participate in this year’s National Blog Posting Month, NaBloPoMo? I started considering that question at least a month … Continue reading To NaBloPoMo or not to NaBloPoMo, that is the question…
I married into my hairdresser, much the way I’d married into four children when I married my husband nearly 21 … Continue reading Why I love my hair stylist…
Mememememememememe…. This post is all about me — and eight other bloggers. One who nominated me for the “Sisterhood of … Continue reading A part of the “Sisterhood of World Bloggers”…
“I have succumbed…” seemed the right title for this post somehow. Although now that I’ve typed that post title and … Continue reading I have succumbed…
Another year, another turkey. Another hundred exclamations of “I HATE cooking turkey.” (I do hate cooking turkey. So much pressure … Continue reading Despite the turkey…
I have always wanted my own office — at home or at work. But until today, that never happened. I … Continue reading An office of one’s own…
A few years ago, when I was in high school :), I tried out for the pompon squad. My sister … Continue reading Affected by the threat of loss…