Miss SugarCookie

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  • 2020-04-17 Restless Sleep and Unsettling Dreams

    2020-04-17 Restless Sleep and Unsettling Dreams

    Everyday I wake up and check my FitBit. What kind of sleep did I get? What’s my sleep score and how many hours and minutes did the Bit think I was asleep? Everyday there is an advertisement (of course) to try the “premium” version that promises more insights. These are troubled times, reports the app,…

  • 2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry

    2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry

    To be fair, I’m really referring to just the one poem I’ve reworked a hundred different ways and each time I try to sneak it into my manuscript, my mentor says “nope”. To be fair, he’s only seen two versions of it and not the fifteen I wrote before or the 30 I thought about…

  • 2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness

    2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness

    Every time I drive west across Nebraska on I-80 I’m full of hope and excitement about what’s to come. If I’m driving west on that long stretch of boring interstate I’m driving away from home and toward something fun and different, people I love and mountains I marvel. I know that soon I will be…

  • 2020-04-15 Rediscovering the Bloom Inside…

    2020-04-15 Rediscovering the Bloom Inside…

    Yesterday I felt something I’ve not felt in a while, a little feeling that I had not even realized was missing. It’s something akin to freedom. Some notion not based in logic or reason, but emanating from my insides and manifesting in my socked feet sliding across the kitchen floor. I asked Alexa to play…

  • 2020-04-14 A Few Words Can Make All the Difference

    2020-04-14 A Few Words Can Make All the Difference

    It’s amazing how one conversation can make all the difference. The impact a few words can have in changing your mood, your perspective, and your direction is incredible. Yesterday did not go as planned (surprise, surprise), yet one conversation I had with a friend of mine, Miss Michelle, was all it took for me to…

  • 2020-04-13 Accepting a New Way

    2020-04-13 Accepting a New Way

    For the first time ever I got a sleep score above 90. According to my FitBit the score for my sleep last night was 91 which equates to excellent. Wowza! Last night I didn’t have much to think about in the way of what “has” to get done this week. My work hours have been…

  • 2020-04-12 Hoppy Sunday Status 💜🐰🌷

    2020-04-12 Hoppy Sunday Status 💜🐰🌷

    It’s Easter. I rarely went to church as a kid (as in almost never) and so for me the holiday is all about bunnies, and baskets, and egg hunts. I actually collected stuffed bunnies when I was a kid and so each Easter, another member was added to my little family. I never owned a…

  • 2020-04-10 Stress (and Easter 🐣) in the Time of Covid

    2020-04-10 Stress (and Easter 🐣) in the Time of Covid

    I was thinking about writing about stress today, because I’m noticing how the extra pressures put upon people make them react. And how different those reactions are. Some retreat into their shells while others appear to be coming out guns blazing. I attended a Facebook live meeting yesterday put on by my kids’ school district…