This Thing Called Life
Stay a While?
There are few things antsier than my right pointer finger as it flies across my car’s radio console. Trying to find the best song, it presses buttons for over a dozen pre-programmed stations, one after the other, giving each channel…
When You Don’t Want to Talk About it, You Probably Should
The other day I didn’t feel much like singing. I was driving around, good music teasing my eardrums, but I wouldn’t take the bait. For some reason, moving my lips to sing along required more energy than I could muster.…
Pathway to Peace: Finding Your Center
I spent part of my weekend in the company of an active one-year-old child. It was a good time; he was high on life, and I caught a contact. I watched as he bounced around nearly every inch of his…
Show Me Who You Are
This morning at Starbucks, one of the baristas said I really needed coffee because I looked tired. His coworker replied, “No, she’s always like that.” I laughed (and made a mental note to perk up), but he spared my feelings…
Life Interrupted
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the…
Ready or Not
My wardrobe is ready. For what, you ask? Just about anything. For approximately 90 percent of all occasions at which my presence might be requested, I could likely rummage through my closet and find something appropriate and cute to wear.…
Do Words Ruin Things?
“Don’t you know words ruin everything?” That question was posed in a movie appropriately titled The Words. The person who asked it was ironically a writer. Since I’m also a writer, and one who is quite fond of nouns, verbs, adjectives…