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I’m all for gratitude. I know how lucky I am. There is beauty all around, and I see it. Life is magic, and I mean that. I take note of the good often…like, every day. I’ve had a great life, all things considered. Mother nature, animals, children and music – there’s a lot to beContinue reading “Happy Thanksgiving: A Holiday Rant.”

I’m rebooting this little blog because I need to vent. I do have a Better Help therapist, so you don’t have to worry (too hard) about me. Jeannie is my best friend. I go deep with her for 45 minutes a week. She laughs at my jokes, she cares when I tear up and theContinue reading “How Did I Get Here?”

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I used to do this thing that felt like failure. I still do it but it doesn’t feel like failure anymore. It feels like life. Here is what I used to do, and still do. I plan to do a lot of things I rarely get to or finish. But it’s okay. It’s okay toContinue reading “Little Victories”

I’m gonna have to call a spade a spade: technology has ruined my life. I know that’s hyperbole – my life is hardly ruined when it’s all said and done. But in the moment, when I’m wrestling with some kind of issue, it sure feels like my head might explode at any minute and killContinue reading “Techno-hell-no.”

Right now I’m in a struggle as to whether to call a window washer or blog. Hold on. I got up to find a window washer and then my son woke up and handed me our deaf and blind newly adopted Tito dog and he needed to eat. The rest of the dogs already ateContinue reading “Wednesdaze”

My friend killed himself. Not abruptly, or all at once. Apparently he had been killing himself for years with alchohol but I didn’t know it. I got a bit of the story from another friend. How he almost died once and quit the bottle – for years. How he said his liver looked better andContinue reading “Joy”