I’ve been very unhealthy the last two years. Not taking my vitamins, drinking all the time, eating a proliferation of cheeses. I kind of buried my head in the sand with it all because that’s easy to do when you’re busy and working all the time. I have to admit that I’ve completely ignored the…Continue Reading
Etcetera
Look What I Found!
My youngest is going to kindergarten in the Fall, and I’ve been lamenting the slick passage of time that slips by without a sound. Then I came across this: “MaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaa!” Booger wailed it from her crib this morning. I prayed, as I pulled the covers over my ears. Sometimes, she’s a one-hit morning shouter…Continue Reading
Weird Celeb Encounter, The End
Part One Here Despite the self-importance of the guys who approached Carolyn and I, the tallest looked like a hobo. Long curly hair twisted and fell into his decidedly past-40 eyes, sandals encased his feet, and a rumpled t-shirt and baggy shorts completed the shabby shab look. His pal looked just like Teller, and…Continue Reading
Weird Celeb Encounter
When I first lived in Los Angeles during the early ’90s, my colleague Carolyn and I often met after work for a drink. We usually convened at a bistro-type joint on Ventura Blvd. in Woodland Hills, a mecca it turned out for celebs looking for a casual, anonymous dinner. As such, the two of us…Continue Reading
Storyteller, Again
I’m posting this again! Because it’s still pertinent! And because my brain is still rumbling over the words to describe my celebrity encounter, which is coming next… She runs inside to where I am at the sink, washing the endless dishes. I hear her fling her shoes off and soon she’s before me…Continue Reading
Rise Again: A Bit of a Primer for a Depression Lift
YEP. Yep, yep, yep. I’m having a hard time. A very hard time. I can’t put it any more plain than that. Or more eloquently. It hasn’t been easy this year, and certain events and circumstances triggered some lowness in me. So. I am posting something I received from my brother today. If anyone is…Continue Reading
Emerge From the Mist
{This is my PROMPTuesday post.} Gut laughs come rarely these days. Those hold-your-stomach, ache-y-in-a-good-way, from-the-soul laughs that used to be so common when we both had perms and ate candy corn for breakfast. You made me laugh in that rollicking, raw way. Day after day, minute to minute, we riffed on each other’s…Continue Reading
My Chiropractic Experience, Part II
I don’t even like looking at this picture. Part I is here. The next step in my journey toward battling my fear of chiropractors and their bone-cracking infernal ways happened when I attended a tweet-up last month. A get-together of San Diego tweeters, a tweet-up is a pretty regular occurrence in this…Continue Reading
An Unlikely Encounter: How Chiropractic Care Did Not Kill Me
These give my soul heart attacks and make babies cry more than they already do. If you know me at all, you’re well aware that my fears are legend and legion. I’m scared of planes, spiders, medicine, cancer, blood, needles, doctors, public speaking, alopecia, and those swim socks that make your feet look…Continue Reading
Sage
I’m going to be honest. I’ve been boiling in a pit of bitter acid for the better part of this year. Waking up in the middle of the night, feeling sorry for myself, comparing my life to others, lamenting my lack of “success,” roiling around in why them and not me, and all that…Continue Reading
How to Celebrate Your 10th Wedding Anniversary
Later this afternoon, my husband and I are leaving to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary in downtown San Diego. It’s gonna be great! Toots and Booger will be there too! In the next bed over. In the same room. It’s hard to find an overnight babysitter. So what we’re going to do…Continue Reading
Guilty Pleasure Songs
You know how you listen to a certain song and instantly feel revived and happy? For some reason, most of those songs for me (with the sole exception of everything the Indigo Girls ever sang) are solidly rooted in the 70s and early 80s. I’ve no real idea why, other than I have sharp and…Continue Reading
