I have said it before but it bears repeating, and what with a holiday dedicated to giving thanks just having passed we might as well revisit the topic: gratitude is simple, and should be simply done. I think a lot of people get caught up on the idea that gratitude has to be for something…
Where, you might ask, does the phrase “back in the saddle” come from? You might not ask because it is rather obvious but I am going to answer anyway. When you are riding a horse, or breaking a horse as the case may be, and the horse throws you off a significant amount of pain…
The couple sat across the aisle and I noticed that an eye mask-ear plug combo device was on the floor by her feet. The nice thing to do was to point out that one of them had dropped their eye mask, which I thought, they might want for the longish flight we were waiting to…
Appearances are not always what they seem. Duh. The big dog, for instance, who looks like she should be tough, and who in fact has the UPS delivery driver convinced that she is a killer, is afraid of noise. Specifically metallic noise (like the pot lid hitting the kitchen floor) and farting noises, the kind…
The clue was “started the pot.” Five letters. In retrospect of course “anted” makes all the sense in the world. But I cook and the image that popped into my mind was of putting a pot on the stove and starting it. I could not figure out what the clue could possibly mean. Heated, heat,…
My birthday is in a week. As happens with birthdays it means that I will be a year older. This year is not a particularly interesting number, I am settling into the decade that I joined last year. I am neither young or old, it is a middle number and so here I am in…
Eggs that is. Perhaps you have heard about the new perk you get as a woman working at Apple or Facebook. No more do you need to worry about pesky things like biology or nature, these have been concurred. Having children while also working or building your career is no longer something you have to…
I don’t remember what year the spider first appeared. We have spent nine summers in this house and I can’t remember the spider not being there. I know that at the beginning my daughter had to use a step-stool to see the spider and I had to lift my son. This year of course he…
A few days ago it was Monday. That’s pretty much always true. Either a few days ago it was Monday or in a few days it will be Monday. It just keeps happening over and over. This particular Monday however was different in so far as it had been designated as a special day. A…
or why do we have to choose. I don’t know too many people who are really good at self-care. Maybe it’s that famed Puritan work-ethic, but it doesn’t seem to me that the lack of ability around self-care, or the tendency to push through the pain are either limited to populations influenced by that particular…
Faith Works 