Living in Limbo
I wish I had a dollar -- hey, I'd settle for a dime -- for every minute in just the past 10 years I've spent in what the people at Merriam-Webster refer to as "an uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition".In other...
I Had No Idea!
"Mail call!" I sang out as I came in the house. I had sorted the envelopes while walking down our driveway, culling the junk mail and dropping it in the trash bin outside and stashing mundane-looking items in my purse. Now I was holding aloft 4 or 5 envelopes...
Beautiful Warrior (book review)
In a nutshell, Beautiful Warrior -- Finding Victory Over the Lies Formed Against You by Tina Yeager is a phenomenal book!I was at first put off by the subtitle (Finding Victory Over the Lies Formed Against You). I don't think of myself as a person about whom others...
What in the World?! (Five Minute Friday)
I'm very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited (so excuse all errors) flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5...
Yes, Virginia, There is Such a Thing! (Five Minute Friday)
I'm very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited (so excuse all errors) flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5...
What Doesn’t Kill Me . . .
Well, here goes. I hope I survive! That's the thought that has flashed through my brain more than a few mornings since that fateful day back in December.That day, like every day for nearly 10 years, I opened the small plastic bottles and took out a...
Goal. Exclamation Mark. Exclamation Mark. (Five Minute Friday)
I'm very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited (so excuse all errors) flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5...
True Confessions
I'm a fraud.I have been much of my life.There. I've confessed it.I didn't become a fraud on purpose. Truth be told, the role of fraud, of what Webster defines as "one that is not what it seems or is represented to be", snuck up on me. I didn't even realize I...
Sometimes I’m Amazed
Sometimes I amaze myself. More often, life amazes me!This is the view of one of my two spare bedrooms yesterday morning. It's a mess, of course. Until a few months ago, all of this stuff -- yarn, craft supplies, photos and memorabilia, etc -- was neatly stored in...
Bake a Cake & Sharpen a File
I'm a criminal.Not just the type that zips down the highway more than the excusable 5 mph over the posted speed limit.I'm also a hypocrite. I'm a stickler for academic honesty, for giving credit where it's due, and for the past umpteen years I've taught...