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You don’t realize the ever encroaching pressure an individual exerts on your actions and personality until the pressure is lifted. You begin to revert to your old habits, to smile more, to joke m...

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Dreamt last night about an employee who is pushy and manipulative and passive aggressive. She was harassing me in that unpleasant, tiresome way she has. I unloaded on her, in a nonviolent way wit...

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Apparently the secret to losing weight is cookies and cake and hotdogs and hamburgers and sloppy Joe. Haven’t lost weight for over a week. I pig out the last two days and drop a pound.

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Columbo you are not.

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Sometimes victory comes in like a rush of elephants. Sometimes it falls like a soft rain on a warm day.

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It’s been over two months. I can feel the stress building inside me like a dark acidic bath, washing my guts and leaving me searching for relief.

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I know your tricks. I know how you try to make me angry. How you say hateful things when you want to put distance between us. How you need me to be a jerk or your guilt will crush you for how you...

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If you think climate change causes earthquakes, cicadas and eclipses you probably shouldn’t be influencing public policy. Frankly I’m impressed you can stand up and breathe at the same time.

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I have to call and I don’t want to do so. I pretend I’m not putting it off. There’s always a reason to delay. Time isn’t stopping for what I want, though. No matter how much I want things not to ...

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Today’s a day. What will it bring?

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It’s not fair. You have chosen a course. Stick to it.

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You get to the point in life where everything slows down and all your problems are behind you and you are looking to the future. You don’t expect to suddenly find yourself alone.

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We’re not going to be playing REM and moping. We could probably use a drink. But we’re not going to do that, either. Hang on.

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This is Nina speaking. How many I direct your call? Bizarrely, I don’t really get a case of the Mondays. Monday is always exciting for me. It’s the day I feel most in control ready to seize the d...

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I cannot express appropriately what a fan I am of Walmart’s salad bags. They take about 2 minutes to mix and last about three meals for one person. Getting back into the gym has been easier than ...

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At least the dog misses me.

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I found out a self evident fact this morning at about five-thirty. I used to run. I like running. Last year I tore something in my knee and quit. When I went to get back in shape this year, I fig...

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“I watch these goats we have. They eat until they are not hungry, and then they lay down until they are hungry again. “Nothing ever occurs to them. They have no goals, no aspirations. A goat will...

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Looking for one of those “You are here.” icons on the map. If you were to ask how I was doing I would have to tell you I just don’t know. Life is spinning in circles and I am getting sucked into ...

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Handel’s Messiah

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Today everything ends and everything begins. Where we go from here, I do not know. My life is no longer my own. Let us hope we make it full circle, stronger, better, renewed. You can do it. I kno...

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I saw it and therefore I hope. It’s not gone. I pray to God it doesn’t go. Give me time. Please. his can’t be it.

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For those questioning whether “they” are eliminating social security, the answer is no. If by they, you mean Trump. This is low brow fearmongering by Dems, trotted out every election year. Feel f...

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Staying busy is an art. Planning out the day and the future. I refuse to lay down and quit, so the question becomes what is next? Practical steps to get resettled, but also hobbies, events, inter...

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