The long and meandering response to this week’s PROMPTuesday… Eight months after I graduated from college, I took a job as a receptionist at a Milwaukee law firm. It wasn’t what I wanted to do, but after living with my parents for a brief time in San Diego, I decided to really be a…Continue Reading
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Life As We Knew It
My end-of-the-world odyssey continues. This past week found me still searching for apocalyptic thrillers, culminating in a read of “Life As We Knew It,” by far, the most mild-mannered “we’re all gonna die” dystopian yet. I suppose it wasn’t dystopian as much as it was “is it the end of the world?” because the…Continue Reading
Mile Marker Number Keep Going
I rolled our bikes out of the garage and hoisted them singlehandedly into the back of the Suburban. I’d had quite enough of feeling powerless over parenting my oldest and hoped a joint bike ride would give us a breather and time away, together. Toots had exhausted herself the night before and this morning…Continue Reading
What I’ve Been Reading Lately
I’m completely into post-apocalyptic right now, which is unfortunate because everyone I look at these days falls into one of three categories: 1) Action hero 2) Crazy maniac probably going to eat my kids and 3) Most likely to die. On a recent camping trip, I even imagined who would steal all our food if…Continue Reading
A Good Reminder
THERE’S A HOLE IN MY SIDEWALK Autobiography in Five Short Chapters By Portia Nelson Chapter One I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost …. I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter Two…Continue Reading
Home Depot Grand Re-Opening: A Hammer and a Tale
This is a sponsored post by me on behalf of The Home Depot. My husband is a Home Depot junkie. Not so much because he’s a tool guy (although there is hope), but because as a tile contractor, he must make multiple trips to Home Depot weekly for supplies and such. If ever…Continue Reading
Work/Life Balance: When Your Body Doesn’t Agree
I’ve gone from day to day. First it’s Memorial Day and then the last week of school for the kids, and it all happened in the burst of seconds it took to write this sentence. Each day is a net I try to escape to just enjoy, relax a little, without being encircled and trapped.…Continue Reading
Fire Eater
She stands by the window, internally pacing. Not gazing, not daydreaming, but watching for something, waiting for it to happen. The yard’s bright, that San Diego blinding yellow and from the side, I see my daughter’s eyes flick over the trampoline and scan the crowded, weedy dirt bank she loves to climb. She’s not…Continue Reading
The Health Odyssey Continues: Dailey Method Lessons Learned
You’d be proud of me. I’m still participating in the Dailey Method 60-Day Challenge, but am less spazzy about it. Meaning, my alignment is better and I’m really and truly sitting up straighter in my normal and everyday life. I’m also holding planks for much longer (just not the full time because what am I,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #221: The Moving
[I’m re-posting this recent writing prompt because tomorrow, I’m speaking on a panel about Moving With Kids: How Does it Affect Them? This is a topic I’m agog over because I moved 12 times in 10 years as a child and I feel strongly that those upheavals were the best things to happen to me. It’s…Continue Reading
Being Healthy: What Works for Me Right Now
I’m just back from another doctor appointment. This one was to ensure I don’t have a bicuspid aortic valve with a corresponding dilated aorta. It’s a congenital defect and unfortunately, it looks like my youngest brother got the short end of the stick with that one, but he’s on top of it and all is…Continue Reading
Over 40 and Doctor-Bound: Is This a Thing?
Tomorrow is a day of many medical follow-ups, which I’ve been putting off because problems disappear if you ignore them right? That’s what my brain told me. But I suppose it’s time to pay the piper and face the music because my doctor finally called and basically said, “stop being a pansy and get in…Continue Reading
