For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a mom. I was absolutely convinced I could parent better than my mother. My father was the breadwinner — king of our small kingdom — and more into himself than raising the two kids he produced and the one he adopted. I became a … Continue reading Letting Go of Adult Kids
Fractured Fairy Tales of the Twilight Zone now in PRINT!https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732543143 Contemporary Fantasy and Modern Romance with lessons for life…
NOTHING TO HIDE? You never know...This IS what Insta, Google, FB, ChatGPT and every other big data SaaS app out there is doing with your personal information: "The Third Reich was a diagnosis regime, obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, religion, politics, sexuality, criminality and purported biological, mental and behavioral … Continue reading Nothing to Hide?
The other day I was running my usual route and a woman pulled her car out of a business park driveway and blocked my path. The instant she saw me approaching she pulled her car back, allowing me room to continue running on the sidewalk instead of into the street to get around her. I … Continue reading A Little Kindness
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BxV6zK4ZFfuWt9b70B8Pf?si=dU4GUkYwTgSAtZtNq0Z2Yg I had a meltdown about writing—the process of—this morning. Simultaneously, my son, a recent computer science graduate, did too—about job hunting. He emailed me while I’m melting down: I’m applying for jobs and contacting these people but when absolutely no one contacts me back I feel like I’m sinking. I just feel like a … Continue reading On Self-Doubt
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3yJRofoRgfBT9w7QLL5Y0x?si=W-G4wBMOQKqloF1aAA-7oA On the short ride home from his Boy Scout meeting, my 11 yr old son was quiet and sullen. I asked him what was up. Had anything happened at the meeting that he wanted to talk about? I saw him looking at me from my rear view mirror, gauging how to tell me disappointing … Continue reading Boy Scouts of Faith-Based America
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fxXPGFxrxRmhkxSB6lh9F?si=774979808a6f488b Our son went on a camping trip with his 5th grade class last week. He was gone four days, spent three nights bunking with eight of his classmates and a high school chaperon. They shared a cabin (with heated floors and a private bathroom), one of many scattered around Camp Arroyo, nestled in the … Continue reading Letting Go of Our Kids
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!
