If you follow me on Twitter chances are you’ve already seen this picture, but I needed something to help illustrate what words nearly can’t. It’s been a hell of a week and while I have a smile on my face, I needed armor. Truth be told I’ve needed a chain mail suit to buffer the rat-a-tat-tat [...]
Friday, January 21, 2011
I’ve been aware of something lately, but I haven’t really wanted to acknowledge it—kind of like that moment when you are driving and you see a pedestrian and you realize you’ve committed to not stopping and you don’t want to make eye contact because all things being equal, you’re making an asshole move. Maybe not [...]
Friday, January 21, 2011
I’ve been waiting to get healthy, waiting to have time, waiting to— Then today I encountered a spate of posts, articles and tweets about not waiting until you are skinny, prepared or whatever-enough to do something. I was standing outside ruminating on it all with Beso, our puppy who hasn’t received nearly enough ink, as he [...]
Monday, January 17, 2011
We were merrily passing through the day when it occurred to me that I should be doing something more than directing activities, interrupting melees, and wiping counters, butts and tears. I looked up a video of the I Have a Dream speech and proceeded to watch it with the girls on my laptop. Being that [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
I woke before dawn, the little girl inside of me daring not to look at the window for fear the snow they promised hadn’t come. It isn’t that I wanted snow, its arrival reminds me that my back is weak, my ability to carry out physical tasks without weighing their consequences is no more. Snow [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The what ifs’ll kill you, right? Last night I dropped the if and the in a minute and the no. When they asked me to dance, I just did. This morning there is no what if to haunt me, just the echoes of last night’s dance and laughter. Staying Alive
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I have been filled with dread, feeling as if all the things I tackled this week should somehow have protected me from having to face one more terrifying hurdle. You can imagine how the universe took that. “Um, yeah, you can take your woe is me and stuff it where the sun don’t shine.” Right, so I [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Sometimes a little bit of magic springs from nothing…this is how I delight in my girls. ThePersonYouNeedFromthePotty
Monday, January 3, 2011
I think a lot of us have at least two personas, maybe three. There is the: this is who I project to parents at the bus stop or coworkers “me.” This “me” is self-deprecating and only admits to truly egregious failures with tongue planted firmly in cheek, this “me” also never owns a triumph too proudly. End result- [...]
Monday, January 3, 2011
I was going to write a post about not having resolutions, then I was going to write a post on finding resolve in something. Then I read an article in one of the local papers. It was written by someone I worked with at the paper before I had kids. We would bump into each other [...]
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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