I can't write. It's not working for me right now. I think it's because I've got things locked up tight. There's too much going on, too much that has to get done, and too many petty grievances. If I let things go, only a crater will remain. Perhaps I can send out invitations to those... Continue Reading →
Life lessons.
Life is full of lessons and you have to work hard to not learn them. I've done that in the past, but I'm going in a different direction now. It was my birthday yesterday. Some remembered and some forgot. I forgot myself until my son's girlfriend reminded me mid-week. The chaos of ill parents and... Continue Reading →
A new post about status updates.
I have a post about Facebook nearly ready to go: this isn't that one. This is also written in the app, so the potential for massive numbers of errors is making me anxious. I'm sorry in advance for those that will inevitably show up. When I win the lottery, I'm renewing my subscription to Grammarly.... Continue Reading →
50 things I’ve learned in my first fifty years.
I’m turning fifty this week – thank you – and it occurs to me that I’ve acquired some knowledge and insight in that time. I thought it might be interesting to sit with myself and figure out what some of that is. As you travel through life, you pick up interesting bits and pieces of information and form ideas about this, that, and the other. In the interest of symmetry, I decided to share fifty of mine. Some are deep, and some less so. So, in no particular order, because I’m simply writing things down as they occur to me, I present my list (which, now that I’m finished is very long, so apologies for that):...