Leave the Dishes…

Leave the dishes.
For the past few weeks I’ve been emotionally unsettled, off balance and vulnerable.    I have blamed it to the post vacation funk that I used to finding myself muddling through when I return to work after time off.  I’ve also blamed it on the added stress that I’ve been encountering in my professional [...]

The Fall Out

Thank you to all who read and commented on my last post.  The whole topic is one that I’ve been quietly  struggling with for months.  I have more to write  but right now there is a press conference set up  outside my office.  VIPs are going to be arriving within the hour and I completely [...]

The Mathematics of Divorce

Divorce is usually thought of as a divider of families; initially that is true but as time passes those families multiply and quite possibly divide again. What used to be a nuclear family becomes a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion.
A few years ago our family divided. My husband continued [...]

Some Things Never Change

Last night I attended my 15 year class reunion. I had a great time but I have a few observations.
The girl who craved attention at 15 is still craving attention in her 30s and the older you get the more destructive that attention seeking behavior gets.
The boy who had a crush on you all [...]

Magic

For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect only our own image; but behind it we soon discover the inner turmoils of our soul – its depth, and ways to gain peace within ourselves and with the world, [...]

What I Didn’t Do on Vacation

One of the things that didn’t happen while I was on vacation the past two weeks was reading.    Not everyone is a reader so not everyone will get why that’s such a big deal.  I on the other hand am a reader.  I’m not a prolific reader like some  book bloggers that I follow that [...]

Brief Post-Vacation Thoughts

“There is NO potty like home” -  The three year old didn’t really care where we went on vacation but did care how the bathrooms smelled.

While on vacation with my  9 year old daughter I needed to remember that she is a pre-teen and as a pre-teen she is likely to be MOODY.

Mommy can be [...]