Full Speed Ahead in 2016
Sometimes I wonder how it would feel to fly. I have come close. With the right music blaring through my speakers and nothing but open road before me, I occasionally look down at my car’s dashboard and realize that I’m…
Life’s Treadmills
I suppose this is what it feels like to be stuck. Something akin to heavy footsteps landing on a rickety old treadmill day after day. Same drab concrete walls for scenery. Same few folks who always trickle into the gym…
Operation Wholehearted
Never touch anything with half your heart. ~ Unknown A few weeks before my birthday, Brené Brown helped me realize that I was touching far too many things with only half of my heart. I was strolling through Target when…
An Updated Altar
The creaking went on so long that I grew accustomed to it. Creaking when I climbed the steps to my home, creaking when I walked down them to leave. Two wobbly steps and a predictable creaking greeted me every single…
Forget Me Not
One of my favorite retailers was recently on my bad side. It was all good a few weeks ago when I learned that DSW was opening a new store around the corner from my home. Driving past a nearby shopping…
A Tale of Two Hearts
“Promise me you’ll wait for me.” Words tend to haunt my psyche until I give in and write them. The phrase “wait for me” has been with me for years now, sometimes in drafts of a poem intended for my…
The Big Dig-out: Unearthing Your Potential
My homeowners association used the last few snow days to remind me that we pay them more than we should. Sometimes I would look out my windows to see snow plows arriving too late and accomplishing too little. Other times,…
