By age 8, I’d decided that no one could help me. No one. Period. But I pretended otherwise, mostly because of the corned beef. * * * I was 7-years-old and in 2nd grade when the teasing began. The girls, three of them, were in 5th and 6th grade, and they picked on me for [...]
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Too many of us, myself included, go around thinking we aren’t making progress, that we aren’t “getting anywhere.” But you know what? You — yes, YOU — have made a lot of progress. Sure, progress can feel slow and painstaking and sometimes non-existent, but it is nonetheless progress.You may have a bad day (or days) [...]
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This morning I awoke to an email that annoyed me. The scenario behind the email goes something like this: I am looking to hire someone to work with me on a long-term growing project that will be one of my priorities this year and going forward. I have spoken with a number of professionals in [...]
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This morning I tried to weasel out of my writing commitment. But my honey called me on it. Well, he didn’t have to. I called myself on it. The conversation went something like this: Me: Let’s go out to breakfast, wouldn’t that be fun!? Him: Sure. Me: How about we go right now!? Him: After [...]
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I was a Kindergartener in Mrs. Gale’s class and I was afraid. On the surface, everything was just fine. I loved school. I loved learning, although it would be years before I felt it was OK to show how smart I was. I had a nice teacher and equally nice friends. Things were good at [...]
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I know today is the day everyone talks about being thankful. I wish I were more thankful, actively so, every day. And not just for the big things like a home of my own, or a car or a refrigerator full of food (unless I am way behind on grocery shopping), but for the little [...]
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I have a dog. Her name is Ebony. That was the name she came with. We call her Ebby. She is mostly Lab and blacker than whatever you think the most black thing is. She is approximately 4-years-old. I say approximately because we were not her first owners. We were not really even her second [...]
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If you are anything like me, and by “like me” I mean human, you have been known to, on occasion, beat yourself up. Not physically beat yourself up, like with a right hook to the eye or a blow to the chest, but beat yourself up like let that nasty-ass mean inner voice take over. [...]
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For a while, I knew there was a problem. It was obvious. Maybe no one else knew, but I sure did. It wasn’t a big enough problem to warrant immediate solving. So I put it off. I tried to work around it, ignore it when I could. It was annoying, but it wasn’t unbearable. My [...]
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This post was originally published on January 19, 2010 in my Truth Tuesday column on CurrentMom.com. Re-publishing today on the 13th anniversary of the day she died. Sigh.(Oh and the weird formatting is from the style sheet of the other blog and I decided not to stress about it and spend hours trying to figure [...]
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