Are you dating? I find this a startling question. But I get it with a enough frequency, that I’ve given it some thought. So here is my answer: My husband moved out October 2014. It is now December 2015. And I have had what- with a bit of imagination- could …
By this point, I know myself pretty well. I know, given a certain stimulus how I react. I believe we have… default settings. Kind of those built-in reactions. I react to stress by eating. In extreme stress, I clean. But I don’t clean everything, I find some small thing that …
In the story of the Nativity, who would you be? In American versions, the Innkeeper is usually kind of grouchy and too busy to pay close attention to what is really happening. Given the culture of the period, I’m not sure this would be true, but it’s how he is …
My other post was more of a downer than I intended. A couple days after I posted it, I had a sort of break through with the particular issue I was in turmoil over. Not any resolution, but a shift in my perspective. And I’m not going to blog about …
So it did take a bit, but I found something to be thankful for from the betrayal I mentioned last post. Perspective: In the whole scheme of things, this is not a big deal. It took up a lot of room in my head for a while and felt huge, …
The news is full of the betrayal in Paris. Isn’t that what it feels like? These spoken and unspoken agreements we have for existing in the world have been violated. Violated in a deadly way. This is not how we do it. Earlier the same day, I was betrayed. In …