Is this part of acceptance?

If one spends the entire day trying to clean up several years of accumulated clutter in one’s house, one will find oneself reaching a calm place where the idea of bagging it all up and throwing it away seems like a brilliant plan. P.S. This might be the result...

Carpe cookie

Today–being my last full day to accomplish the Herculean set of housecleaning tasks I have set for myself before Rejoining The Working Folk–I found myself watching a friend’s 5-year-old daughter for an hour. I was itching to get on with my to-do list...

Earworm

Whatever tomorrow brings, I’ll be there with open arms and open eyes, yeah. Whatever tomorrow brings, I’ll be there… I’ll be there. (Seemed all karmic and meaningful the first gazillion times it played its way through my brain. Probably still...

Careful what you wish for

I’ve changed a lot in my years on this planet. The woman I am today is different than the woman I was twenty or ten or even five years ago. People grow; priorities shift, we (hopefully!) mature into finding the things that really matter to us. Some things, of...

Stress antidote

There’s only one thing that will help me unwind after a rough day, and today I did it a whole new way. It started with a special delivery to the house; my pulse quickened immediately. As soon as I was able to shoo the children over to their father’s for...

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