Category: backstory

  • Protected: 2023-12-15 This Post is Not About Sandwiches🥪

    Protected: 2023-12-15 This Post is Not About Sandwiches🥪

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  • 2023-10-07 Entering Stealth Poet Mode, but To What End?

    2023-10-07 Entering Stealth Poet Mode, but To What End?

    Hey guess what?! Turns out I’m anti-social. No kidding!!  Ok… so that’s not new news but I did a creativity workshop this morning and one of the bullet points staring at me from the barrel of that PowerPoint gun was this:❀ Opening ourselves to new experiences opens the door to creativity ❀ No kidding?!!  Yeah……

  • 2023-09-10 Sedona Arizona Day 0: Flying Solo

    2023-09-10 Sedona Arizona Day 0: Flying Solo

    Day Zero. The travel day. The day I don’t actually reach my destination because I needed a day to myself before meeting up with my Texas Bestie and making our way to our home away from home for the week.  For one thing, I’m a serious introvert who almost never gets to be alone so…

  • 2023-09-03 Headed for BIG MOVES, at my own pace…

    2023-09-03 Headed for BIG MOVES, at my own pace…

    I put a lot of thought into almost everything. Too much sometimes and often to my own detriment. I might argue that over-analysis has led to some really great outcomes but chaos theory has a way of throwing off any statistics I might try to use to prove my point.  Which is a fancy way…

  • 2023-08-29 Welcome to the backside slide…

    2023-08-29 Welcome to the backside slide…

    …down the cheese grater of life. “Really bro?”  Yeah… that’s more or less what my brother wrote in my birthday card. That and “welcome to the club.” “What club bro?” I say though I know damn well what club.  Should I feel special? He and I have never been in a club together so maybe…

  • 2023-08-07 Breaking up may be hard to do but…

    2023-08-07 Breaking up may be hard to do but…

    Putting it all back together takes forever!! Every time I think I’ve turned the corner and am feeling back to myself again I’m reminded pretty quickly that I’m no spring chicken, and no longer recover from anything as quickly as I used to. That’s one of the realities of aging. The body keeps a score…

  • 2023-06-29 List Making for Better Work-Life Balance and More Flavorful Cookies

    2023-06-29 List Making for Better Work-Life Balance and More Flavorful Cookies

    Before I was self-employed, I’d often end my work day by making a list of tasks that needed to get done the next day… or at least a starter list of priorities. Then, the next day when I arrived at my desk, I could look at my list and jump right in. The other benefit,…

  • 2023-04-30 Cycles of Melancholy and Madness

    2023-04-30 Cycles of Melancholy and Madness

    For months I’ve been trying to puzzle out my problem (ok, ok, years or probably my whole damn life)… but for arguments sake let’s just call it months because that’s how long I’ve been experiencing a growing concern about how I feel on a daily basis. This nagging angst coupled with a deep desire to…