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Rest stop
Tuesday is tired day this week. 48 + hours into another busy week, and my energy has stalled out, as though I forgot to fill the gas tank. I’m a cautious person, and have a tendency to fill up at half full, unlike those brave souls that live risky and wait until the needle has been…
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Monday night review
Another Monday, come and gone. I’m sitting in a stupor on the couch, arm wrapped around a soft little boy, lap full of black cat. For a brief moment, I feel calm, the wind that howls from the constant storm inside abated. I feel grateful for how warm and happy I am, with my loyal…
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New arrival
A new day. Like any other, except for those that come before and after. A slight change, by degree if not design, suddenly the world is changed, richer? One more creation in the world, it will ascend to a place on my shelf, In my heart, Maybe touch another on its way? My paperback newborn
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Living the dream
Excitement bubbled under the surface all day. Knowing that tomorrow I’ve achieved something I never thought I would has given me such an incredible feeling, it was all I could do not to succumb to a state of anxiety and joy and just sit in a corner and wait. I continued with my everyday life…
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The cold
Oh man. Rhinovirus is not just a funny sounding disease. At least, I assume that’s what I have right now, based on the exceptional quality of the congestion and scratchy throat that I’m experiencing. Luckily, it was a light day. My six year old diminutive doppelgänger had her follow up with the ENT, and managed…
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Driven
What do you believe in? What would you fight for, die for, give everything you have for? Is it a person, place or thing, do they love you back the same? Do you wake up every day, eager to carry on? Or do you struggle to continue, telling yourself, “Just one more day” Does your…
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To give thanks
Fall and thanksgiving are irrevocably connected to me. Today, I fulfilled a long held need that I didn’t have just a few years ago. It’s been building this year though, a sense of nostalgia and separation, feeling sometimes as though I am leading my life on a superficial plane, Working, sleeping, going through the motions, …
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A food lovers prayer
The holidays are hard on a waist, this much is true. Get enough people together, Food is the glue My stomach stretched and overfull, my mouth with an elastic ability, to eat past common sense, past the point of debility As each holiday comes and goes, I warn myself thus; Don’t eat that much again,…
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Thanksgiving
This weekend is one of remembrance and family for me. For many people in North America and around the world, it also leads into the holiday season in the Christian world. As the leaves turn shades of gold and russet, the weather chills and the smell of decaying leaves and dirt surrounds me. I picked the…