The Grass is Always Greener
I should be posting something lovely and springfully poignant but it’s April vacation and the kids are up my ass, and My Better Half works from home, so he too is up my ass, and the cats and the dog and the two Siamese fighting fish are up my ass. And the second floor windows [...]
Interested and Interesting
It’s spring and it’s All Red Sox All the time at my house these days. I’ve had to warn the kids that baseball is the kind of sport that is played round-the-clock, each and every day until November and if we don’t fight the compulsion to watch every bleeding game we will lose some important [...]
Timing
So what does a twice rejected nascent writer do after the receiving the latest in a series of loud and echoing No’s? Well, of course she gets right back in the saddle and fires off a few short stories to five different literary magazines and makes sure she enters a couple writing contests and decides [...]
Deaf Ears
As they say, it’s got to get worse before it can get better. (Remind me. Who the fuck is the ‘they’ who said that. I’d like a word with them and those choice mots would be sharp and scolding.) As is typical of Monday, today was a shit storm of a day. (Can you tell [...]
Tough Crowd
I was resolved to don my big girl panties and drag myself out of the doldrums. I’d been indulging my foul mood, wallowing in the mud of self immolation. I thought I was finished with all that. I felt ready to greet the new day but then there was the thing that happened at Elementary [...]
Six Words
I knew it was only a matter of time before it caught up with me. And no I’m not talking about this year’s version of the flu or heroin addiction or the guy whose car I sort of scratched with the grocery cart on Saturday, I’m talking about the dreaded six-word-memoir meme that has been [...]
The Fishbowl
If I’m being frank, I’d have to call yesterday an ordeal. And I was hoping that once I began my first day as a volunteer for the non-profit agency that serves the low-income seniors of this community, my life would change forever – there would be new and apparent purpose and a spring in my [...]
Without Tears or Recrimination
We waited for a bleak, gray day to talk about it. That’s always the way. It’s so much easier to be confrontational when the weather is as dank and misty. Frustration can simmer even on the sunniest of days but in the gloom of February it just seems impossible to ignore.
Admittedly we’ve been patching it [...]
Do Over
Some days are the kind of days you’d just like to hit the “Do Over” button. Roll back the clock and let it all unwind again.
But as it is, it’s the only day you’ve got and starts with an early morning wake-up (okay, it’s more like an early morning decision to finally get out [...]
Another Glimmer of Profoundity
I need to thank ByJane today for her terrific post on embracing the process. She describes herself as coming from a family of strivers, people who appreciate the end game, the product more than the process, people who believe that there must be a reason to do something to make it worthy of the effort. [...]
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