I feel real bad about another re-post. I don’t know why I keep doing it. NO! I know why! Because: Tired. Despite resistance from my non-linear brain, I like to be organized. I despise clutter and for mental sanity, need everything in its place. However, nothing has a place in my home, because I…Continue Reading
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Almost: About Boundaries & Feeling Worthy
Originally posted March 4, 2010, but I’ve had a number of very recent conversations with women that make my soul feel I should post this again. Since I’ve been thinking lately about boundaries, I thought I’d explore the serious side. As a woman who never learned to set personal boundaries, I’ve paid a price.…Continue Reading
TidDates
I decided “TidDates” was better than “UpBits.” Of course I did. Because why say Updates when you can say something weirder? So here are the weekend things: You know when you are somewhere bored out of your mind and trying not to tap your foot too obviously or stare into space too…Continue Reading
Strands: A Re-Post
I thought of this again yesterday after one of “those” conversations with my seven-year-old daughter, Toots… First she asks how Johnny Appleseed died, then Christopher Columbus. Eager to encourage her learning, even if it is morbid, we look up the details. Appleseed gave in to pneumonia at age 72; Columbus suffered a heart attack…Continue Reading
PMS Weekend Update
Do you remember the bathing suit project? I was off to a running start. Working out several times a week, eating pretty good, cleansing my liver, and then… yesterday happened. Yesterday, which began innocuously enough, culminated in a marathon of 15 mini cupcakes, 10 Oreos, an In n’ Out Burger, three orders of fries,…Continue Reading
I Can’t Believe the Time I…
It was 1994. My flying phobia filled every part of me, but it was Christmas and I wanted to go home for the holidays. A few weeks before I decided to fly to San Francisco from Chicago, a plane corkscrewed into a midwestern farm field with hundreds of people aboard and I couldn’t sleep for…Continue Reading
Healthy Living and California Parks
I recently was contacted to do some blogging* for Dannon, and help moderate a healthy living board here. Since I’ve re-committed to health and a bathing suit, I thought this gig would be an excellent fit. Mainly because it’s everything I believe in: getting healthy in mind, body, soul (even if I’m not so good…Continue Reading
Sticks and Stones
The below is in response to the Indie Ink Writing Challenge. This week, I was challenged by T with the prompt, “sticks and stones.” For the same, I challenged Bewildered Bug, with the prompt, “road trip.” It’s a rod, I suppose. Purposeful, erect, unbending, secured in flesh, knotted in spine. It knows what…Continue Reading
A Brief Musing on Gut Laughter
We grew close in college, sharing a certain goofiness not easily found in others. Attending school in the Midwest — Milwaukee no less — meant beer, beer, beer. (What can I say? Our dorm was within spitting distance of the Pabst Mansion.) And so much beer, beer, beer, engendered in us a kleptomaniac, chimichanga-eating, Def…Continue Reading
On Being Real: A Very Quick Vent
Authenticity means the world to me. I try hard to be real. I don’t always succeed, to be sure, but I certainly set “being real” as a goal. I think this is why it’s so hard for me to see certain online behaviors that are anything but transparent and authentic. I know that…Continue Reading
A Street With a Tree
Today a post I wrote about my move to the suburbs is up at The Smartly SoCal. It’s been awhile since we made the transition, and we now love it here. Goodbye street cred!
The Bathing Suit Saga Continued
Yesterday’s post raised some interesting body image questions for me. I thought I’d come pretty far from the below (re-posted from March 2008 for your reference and laughs), but maybe I haven’t? What I know is that I feel unhealthy and I want THAT to change, whatever my body looks like in the end. …Continue Reading
