Rose bushes that are scraggly, need pruning, are struggling to stay alive and are infrequently watered make me sad. There’s a stretch on my drive home that has a ton of them planted in the tiniest openings in the sidewalk. It’s like someone ran out of concrete every few feet and wanted to make sense […]
Occasionally I yearn to be one of those people who is able to say, “My whole life has led up to this moment.” I often wonder what my life is laddering up to. I’m a single, 36 year-old gal who just adopted another cat, I don’t have a home that I own, I do have […]
I switched elementary schools at that critical point when state capitals were being taught. As a result, I don’t know them all by heart. I had a small music scholarship to a college in Indiana, but didn’t accept it. As a result, I ended up majoring in advertising…elsewhere. I’ve never had a good New Year’s […]
There are some things in life that are impossible to control. Others’ actions, the stock market, the weather, and on and on. We can make all the plans in the world, but the universe operates as it’s supposed to. After all, how does the quote go? “The best laid plans of mice and men often […]
As human beings, it seems like we’re always looking for proof. Proof that someone loves us, as if to say that their words aren’t enough. Proof that we’re good enough, as though someone telling me that I can do whatever I put my mind to goes in one ear and out the other. Proof that […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about taking the plunge. Not necessarily in the marital sense, but in the sense of doing anything big. Anything life-changing. Anything that has the potential to completely redefine the meaning of normal. Normal changes when we do something out of the ordinary. Normal is safe, but branching out is […]
“This isn’t who they are. It is only what happened to them. The human spirit is incredibly resilient. More than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope.” It’s been a long time since I’ve read a quote that struck home as much as that one did — and does — for me. Who […]
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