Telling yourself a story?
Like me, I’ll bet you have a “story” for just about everything! Why you can’t lose weight, why you can’t keep to your budget, why you can’t learn a new skill… “I’m just big-boned.” “I’ve never been good with math.” “I’m too old.” Like me, you probably know that the story we tell ourselves is […]
Does English make any sense?
(In my first incarnation in the olden days of long ago!), I found some humor in teaching recalcitrant 7th and 8th graders the “rules” of the English language. Some rules do seem to have the fun of being self-contradictory! Our language continues to change. Perhaps it’s evolving, not just degenerating? Whatever the reason, it sure […]
Which do you believe?
Many popular sayings are correct, even insightful, when we apply them to our life’s circumstances. But when properbs are viewed without qualification, they can cancel each other out! (Thus, my nerdy ex-English teacher and avid reader side has taken control of this post!) And we’ve all heard that “birds of a feather flock together” AND […]
The ‘weeds’ in our lives…
When do we consider a plant a weed? Simply expressed, a weed is a plant that grows where it isn’t wanted by us. Weeds are defined by their tendency to flourish at the expense of a gardener’s overall vision and we tend to battle their presence in our yards. (Guess what I’ve been doing these […]
A story about being lost…
Once upon a time…a man was walking down a road. At first the places were known to him, but became less and less familiar. Finally he knew he was in a new place and was lost. The traveler kept walking until he was at the foot of a steep hill. He was too tired to […]
My new favorite color!
Almost nothing else represents the emergence of spring like the beloved yellow daffodil, happy and bright after its (and my) long winter’s nap. I think some things on this earth were designed to bring happiness to the hearts of humans: thus the daffodil! It’s as if the sun had shed a layer of skin and […]
It’s a miracle, isn’t it?
To our ancient ancestors, it must have been a most startling event to see a new and live creature emerge from a seemingly dead object! That delicate shell is a paradox: sturdy enough to shield the life growing inside it, but frail enough to give way to the emergence of the life within it, protective […]
Using all the colors in the box…
Life is like a box of crayons. And we are always choosing the colors we prefer. I love the possibilities suggested by Terri Guillements, a quotations anthologist, that (Aren’t her descriptions just awesome?!) I believe it is heresy to get into the habit of calling a grey day a “colorless” day even in this sometimes […]
an older but wiser story
Here’s a story I told five years ago…and I still like the lesson! As I’ve gotten older and find myself looking ‘for a gate to open rather than climbing over a fence’, I can at least say to myself, “I may be slower, but at least I am wiser.” With that thought in mind, here’s […]
Both the dark and the light…
Last Sunday we changed our clocks to begin Daylight Saving Time. We seem to have gotten used to wanting more light sooner and so we artificially “Spring Forward” yearly to get an “extra” hour of sunlight! And now this coming Friday (March 20) we celebrate the first day of Spring (the vernal equinox), that point […]