Progress isn’t linear. This is the phrase that repeats in my head as I backslide. Some weeks I am crushing it at waking up and meditating first thing. For one whole week I was up at 6am. By Saturday of that week I fell off the wagon. Lately, I am back to rolling out of … Continue reading Progress Isn’t Linear
Epiphanies
Lately, in my previously mentioned quest for clean, I’ve been having epiphanies. As I lay my head down at night to sleep ideas are bombarding me. “If I clean out x drawer I can move y things into it.” Or, “If I sort my closet to have cardigans grouped together, dresses grouped together, and so … Continue reading Epiphanies
Quest for Clean
I come from a family of neat freaks. My grandmother’s level of cleaning was beyond what normal people would ever do. The tales I heard of her, rigging up homemade scaffolding to balance precariously over the stairs to clean a window. Her daughters followed suit although my poor mother had four kids who were a … Continue reading Quest for Clean
Magic
I am convinced there is magic in female friendships. I’ve experienced it in my own life and I’ve been swept away by it in the following tv shows and movies: The Golden GirlsSex and the CityGirlsHarlemAnd Just Like ThatThe Bold TypeDesigning WomenGrace and FrankieFirefly LaneInsecureBig Little LiesWorkin’ MomsSweet MagnoliasWine CountryPOMS I share this list because … Continue reading Magic
Better
Things are slowly getting better. I’m moving more, not napping during the week. I’m reading again, I’m writing again. I’m finding balance between rest and productivity, whereas before I was all rest, yet never feeling rested. Today I watched a video from an immunologist at University of Michigan who thinks this is the year the … Continue reading Better
Fighting Old Habits
Why are old or bad habits so hard to break? Today, I am tired. When I got off work I felt so desperately tired. I didn’t sleep the best last night. I fought the urge to crawl into bed and under my blankets, knowing full well it would ruin sleep for tonight. I sat on … Continue reading Fighting Old Habits
The Little Things
They say it is the little things in life and as always the ubiquitous ‘they,’ are correct. I finally caved and bought a Roomba. I’ve wanted one for years but while I had my never fully house trained chihuahua, Frankie, it was out of the question. My living situation is now different and I decided … Continue reading The Little Things
2022
The start of a new year generally brings hope but since 2020, hope seems futile. I was tremendously hopeful for 2020 and then it went down the crapper real fast. 2021, I hoped would be better. Vaccines were coming, clearly people would do the right thing and the world would get back on track. Well, … Continue reading 2022
Fear
Fear. A four letter word, a heart pounding emotion that I’ve let run so much of my life. Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of loss, fear of being hurt. So many fears. For a long time I wanted to blame my parents for making me so afraid. After all, problems always stem from … Continue reading Fear
Identity
A topic that often comes to mind for me is identity. How do I, identify myself? A writer? A talker? Outgoing? Bubbly? Techie? Hippie? Spiritual? Dog person? Cat person? The list goes on. The reality is, these are all adjectives and ultimately pieces of a whole. One person is no one thing. I used to … Continue reading Identity
Martinis and Meltdowns 