I was on track to leave the house on time — total score. I hadn’t slept well last night, so I was up and at ’em earlier than usual. Backing out of the driveway this morning, I noticed the front porch light was still on. I pulled back in, ran insi…

I woke up an hour before my alarm went off this morning and, despite my sans-alarm start to the day, there was still a startling element as I came to and started to focus: The Bee Gees’ “I Just Want to be Your Everything” was stuck in my head. I h…

I’ve never seen a store more crowded than I did today. And while they already have the garden center un-gardenized and bursting at the seams with holiday decor, the place was more busy than I’ve ever seen it — even around Christmas. Sundays are m…

I was reading something recently about vulnerability, and how it can lead to so much good in life if you just allow yourself to let everything in. “Everything?” I don’t know about you, but vulnerability scares the hell out of me. And I’m going to …

I was chatting this afternoon with a co-worker today about the architecture of a doughnut. Earlier in the day, I noticed there was a pesky box of leftover, doughy remnants in our agency kitchen area, and it was staring me in the face each time I n…

Raising the bar. The wow factor. There are a lot of ways to say that something has demonstrated or possesses an element that elevates it head and shoulders over something else. And it’s always refreshing to hear a new way of saying something. I ca…

I’m not a fan of taking the trash out at 9:15 at night and stepping into 80-degree weather. Last week we were lucky enough to get some much needed rain. A few days later, it still felt like fall was in the air. Today, not so much. This time of the…

I have two plants in my office. They’re those wonderfully air cleaning and nearly indestructible plants called pothos. They’re a beautiful emerald color with splashes of yellow, but one has a far more golden look to its leaves. Since they are both…

“Impressive” is a funny word. It’s a word that can sometimes imply a sense of grandeur, a sense of wealth or a sense of awe. It can bring to mind monuments of great size, natural wonders that dot the landscape and man-made structures that defy gra…

Some nights, after the day has died down and the vast expanse of a clear night sky inspires wonder, I find that I have so many questions about my life. I want to know about the who, what, where, when, the why and the how. I wonder about my past an…