The 5 Love Languages: Take Another Look at Yours
Ever feel kind of love-constipated? Like, you’ve got all this love for someone and you can’t quite get it out. Or, the reverse, like despite knowing someone loves you, you can’t fully feel it? It could be because your love language isn’t what it used to be (and maybe...
Fail Faster: Some of the Hardest Advice to Swallow
I’ve started this piece a few times now. Twice on paper. Three or four times in my head. This is the third go on a keyboard. Fail, fail, fail. I even missed last week’s self-imposed publishing deadline. It wasn’t really a matter of writer’s block. The words came...
“What Day Is It?” and Other Questions Inside the Midlife Time Warp
It never fails. At least once a week during our morning coffee time on the porch, either hubby or I ask, “What day is it?” Sometimes, the answer takes a minute because the time warp blurs them all together. Of course, it doesn’t help that life got really weird almost...
Unleashed: Life Lessons from a Dog
Dogs are some of my favorite people. Hubby and I have three. They’re all our babies, but Pickle is extra special. I’ve learned a little something about life from her. Hopefully this won’t get sappy. First, Let Me Tell You About Pickle If you’re a dog person, you know...
Multitasking Sucks And It’s Probably Driving You Crazy
Multitasking used to make me feel so productive. That is, until life started feeling like a browser with 73 tabs open. Here’s what I’ve discovered about getting stuff done and enjoying the process. [The scene, about 1993] Both coffee pots were empty. Again. I was the...
Positive Thinking Is Hooey. This Works Better.
Positive thinking always bugged me. It seemed to require lying. Mind you, I’ll be the first to look for the silver lining. But that’s different from positive thinking. Here’s the thought experiment I’m running now. A few months ago, I bought a copy of Trevor Blake’s...
My Kingdom for a Deo that Works!
Who Knew There’d Be So Much Perspiration in Midlife? Remember the good old days when we were kids in the seventies, and there were deodorants like Tickle? So cute – and they smelled like candy. And weren’t we cute thinking that the sweaty pits we got...
Go Outside and Play! (Yes, YOU)
How many times did we hear it as kids? “Go outside and play!” (possibly followed by, “and don’t come home until the streetlights are on!”) As a kid growing up in the seventies, getting to go outside and play – especially during the summer – was a huge part...