Jul 29 2011
Fierce tides are raging all around and my boat feels very small. My clothes are wet and my fingers are tired from gripping the side of the small craft. I take a chance and look over the side and into the raging waters: alarm clocks, gasoline prices, college tuition, court dates, jury duty, car registrations, …
May 01 2011
You knew what I meant. I could actually end this post right now and my point will have already been made. I am fascinated by the fact that we have a word in our language that has become so sensationalized that we don’t even have to say it, and others know what word we are …
Mar 06 2011
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” ~Meg Cabot I am not immobilized, I know this because (1) I’m writing. When I get so fearful that the fear is in control, I cannot bring myself to open my laptop, let alone figure out …
Feb 10 2011
Since moving to the foothills of California, I have been making a lot of new friends. Three of my new friends are named Shawna, Shanda, and Shannon. No, they are not triplets. I cannot count how many times I have called Shannon by the name Shawna or vise versa. Sometimes when I am with …
Jan 14 2011
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I read the bestseller “What to Expect When You are Expecting” until I knew each of the “nine month” descriptions word for word. The dogeared copy was my only link to the truth that things that I couldn’t watch from the outside were actually changing on the inside. …
Oct 17 2009
If a spider wants to live in my backyard, he is free to build a townhouse and put in his own swimming pool, for all that it matters to me. But, the inside of my house is off limits to anyone with eight legs. The conflict that arises in me when a spider comes scrambling …
