I’m a guy’s girl, meaning I’ve spent most of my life hanging out with men instead of women. Like the freight train comin at ya, I prefer men’s straightforward nature, their directness, their unwavering, solution-oriented trajectory. Men are simpler than women. Not less intelligent, just not round-about, underneath, from behind. Women, by contrast, are the … Continue reading The Difference Between Men and Women
Regardless that these are babies, child or adults feel connected, safe, when the people in our lives SHOW they care about us, what we want, how we feel, and why. Shutting down, shutting those we ostensibly care about out, to self-protect, is destructive in the extreme. From the clip: "When she's grounded, is comfortable in her … Continue reading PAY ATTENTION!
“I'm educated, but uniformed,” Sheryl said deadpan. “And I want to stay uniformed.” I laughed. “Laughing is good,” she said. But I was laughing at her, and not with happiness, but skin-crawling disgust. An accountant for over 30 years, at one time running her own firm, Sheryl has an MBA from Wharton, which informed her … Continue reading Educated, but Uninformed
I had a conversation with my former financial advisor when the markets were crashing back in ‘08. I asked him to give me an estimate, his best, ostensibly educated guess when the market might turn around or at least stabilize. He assured me it would be soon. The credit default scandal had already been exposed. Real estate foreclosures … Continue reading The 5% Factor in Finance
This morning I came into my office and there was an email from my husband. It was title, "The terminator is coming..." No joke. That was the exact SUBJECT LINE of his email. I don't care that another Terminator movie is coming out. I liked only the first and second Terminator movies, and thought the rest … Continue reading A True Email Tale
I'm participating in one of the creepiest, weirdest, most...surreal experiences I've ever had. Greg Tremblay is a voice actor currently producing the audiobook for my novel Reverb. We met through ACX, Amazon's audiobook portal which hooks up authors with actors/producers for creating audiobooks to sell exclusively through Amazon and their channel partners. I hadn't consider Reverb as … Continue reading Inside Out. Or Flat Out Crazy
...or The War Inside My Head I have time to write the 2nd draft of PT. Or, at least, I can make time. But I'm NOT WRITING it. Why? WHAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM? I CAN'T THINK OF STORY. HELL, I CAN'T THINK other than about my fucked up sitch, in the REAL WORLD, outside … Continue reading Writer’s Block
The Tea Party rally was just breaking up when I picked up my daughter from her day camp at Central Park. A woman standing at the fringe of the crowd held a big poster that read: “Gay Marriage is a SIN! God said NO on Prop. 8! God says preserve DOMA!” On the poster was … Continue reading Republicans, Religion and What’s Right
I think about suicide constantly. It used to be my out— if life got too...much, I'd leave. Feeling nothing must be better than feeling bad all the time— my rejoinder. My life hasn't been very hard, not like the kids in Oakland hard. I grew up in a middle-class suburban neighborhood, when it was still … Continue reading On Suicide
What LOVE, the real thing (NOT theory, or just the word) actually IS: https://midlifemomscafe.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/love-defined/ #momlife #parenting #aga3 #t4us #SundayReads
