Self Discovery
Action & insight
So, in January of our oldest son’s Senior year, I started assembling a scrapbook of his photos for the family Graduation party. I scurried around, finding pictures here and there, and, in my usual analytical style, laid out a spreadsheet of important trips and milestones to catalog. Painstakingly, night after night, I worked on it [...]
Catching it
Lately, I’ve caught a lot: I’ve caught up on my sleep after catching the walking bug I’ve caught wind of some good networking info. I’ve caught myself laughing, singing along and trying new things. I’ve caught more tasks than I bargained for in team meetings and made it through to tell the tale. I’ve caught [...]
One Tin Soldier
I was probably around nine years old and a couple of years into my first pony; summers were spent exploring the hills and coulees around our farms. My cousins and I pooled our pop bottle money on cap gun “ammo” and, out in the sage and the brush, we’d reenact days of old: The Pony [...]
ABCs – easy as 1-2-3
Both Jeanette at A View from the Middle and Dianna at These Days of Mine presented me with a new blog award, the ABC (Awesome Blog Content) award recently. Thank you ladies; I am honored that you feel my blog has awesome content! When accepting the ABC award , the recipient is supposed to list [...]
Yogi lessons
No, not that Yogi. The other kind .. as in yoga. That’s right, yoga. See, I’ve had this DVD sitting around for probably 6 months now. Just took the plastic off last week. Popped it in after a long walk, thinking it might benefit me. And it did. But wait – there’s more! Tuesday night, [...]
Walking distance
I work near someone whose personality grates on my nerves. There’s no conflict; I make the effort to get along because that’s the right thing to do. Having said that, her voice is the last thing I want to hear on a busy day, a quiet day, an aggravating day or, for that matter, any [...]
on Hope
People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back. –Martha Beck, Finding Your Own North Star It’s been there … waiting patiently for me on my end table. I’ve reshuffled my reading pile and recently invited this book (Finding Your Own North Star) in. And now, now I’m puzzling [...]
Getting (back) up again
Here we are, several months into 2012 and I’m just wondering – how are those New Year’s Resolutions going? I didn’t make any. I started out the year behind, having gotten sick at Christmas and staying that way through most of January. Next came a cold sore and a stomach bug. Oh the joys of [...]
Price-point
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown Lately, I’ve evaluated how I “spend” my time vs. how I want to. Isn’t it odd that we measure time in units of value? How did you spend your day off? Oh man, I [...]
On detours
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown I’m deviating from my path by taking tomorrow off. I’ll get all my weekend “to-dos” done in the wee hours of the morning but mostly, mostly I want a day without conference calls, meetings and a lot of [...]
