It’s been eight months since my last post. That post in March was about my goals for the year and those same goals are why I…
I realized a few days ago that I never wrote my annual goals post for 2017. I usually do it around January 1st but that day…
Some monks are making me agitated! Okay, not actual monks, but a story about them that I can’t seem to get out of my head. Ironically,…
It’s the time of the year for goal-making, and it’s the time of the year for reflection. Back in March I made a list of ten…
For the last few weeks I have felt generally happy and energetic. This is my baseline. My norm. But for the last four and a half…
On Thanksgiving Eve the Hubs and I sat down and watched Inside Out for the first time, and while Up still wins for most sob-induing moments…
I’m in the final stretch of editing my novel. I am very happy to be typing that sentence, but at the same time I am starting…
Life Lessons
10 Things You Hate About Me: Why Being Friends with an Introvert is Hard
August 14, 2015Like so many things in life, introversion and extroversion are not absolutes. They exist on a spectrum, a sliding scale. Most people fall more towards one…
Back in March I set some goals for myself for the rest of the year (you can read them here). One of those was to run…
I’m inspired this week by a great post on Linked In which I found via Susan Cain’s Facebook page (if you are an introvert or the…
I got my first grey hair when I was twenty-four. I remember it well because I was getting my hair done for my wedding and they…
A week ago I got really angry. Seven days later and every time I think about it I start to get angry all over again. So…
It’s already been a month since Bean was born. March is usually a slow moving time for me, the last long slog toward spring, but this…
A few well-meaning people, when I told them I was writing a novel, replied in what is decidedly one of my least favorite ways: “I would…