Highlights of 2008

January.  January of 2008 was  the beginning of  an amazing year.    I woke up on New Years Day to the start of a new life and a hot shower!
Getting my BlackBerry.  I have to admit that my BlackBerry has changed my life.  I now have access to my various email accounts, my Facebook, CNN, the [...]

Lightbulbs: An Inner Dilemma

Two and a half years ago I moved out of the house that I had previously occupied with my former spouse and moved into a small, cozy two bedroom duplex in town.  My living alone experience prior to this was … um… ZIP, NADA, ZILCH.  Sure I had went off to college but I  spent [...]

A Reminder

Today’s reminder, as if I need one, that my ex husband is my EX for a reason occurs about 15 minutes into the elementary school Christmas program.
The fact that we leave separately and go home to separate houses is a gift that keeps on giving!

A Thought

Sometimes I think about how much the single Mom gig thing sucks.   Then I remember how much more it sucked being married.
Then I smile!

One Of Those Days

Today is/was/continues to be one of “those” days.
You know the ones.
The ones where you realize that you forgot about the cookie exchange you’re having at work the next day and you don’t have the energy to come home after working all day and be a Mom and bake cookies for other [...]

What Book Am I?

You’re One Hundred Years of Solitude!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lonely and struggling, you’ve been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. [...]

Quickly… A List

1. Oh I just logged in to WordPress and it’s different.
2. I’ve been relaxing over the weekend and it was great.
3. New piano at my house. YAY!
4. Winter Storm Warning in effect for where I live tomorrow. Looks like a snow day!
5. Sometimes small towns are just too small. [...]

Blog Comment Day Live

Today is Blog Comment Day as pronounced by johnsmulo.com.  I have a busy day today but I plan to leave the links to the blogs that I am commenting on for the first time here.   I started early last night.  I have a busy day today and wanted to at least have some blogs picked [...]

Yellow Roses

(A companion piece to Corina’s blog post on a Yellow Rose)
The young woman’s eyes darted across the table.  She looked lost in the familiar surroundings. There she was at a table she had sat at thousands of times before next to the the fragile looking woman.  At first glance, an outside observer would have guessed [...]

Artifacts

I take my time
Unearthing the small things that she left behind.
Hand written notes.
A pill bottle.
Me.
Artifacts of her.
Proof.
She was real.
She wrote this.
She held this.
She loved me.
Items once inconsequential are now irreplaceable.
What mysteries they hold.
Mysteries of me.
Inside of her my heart started to beat.
My arms moved for the first time.
She knew me first.
I am an [...]