I’m a bit bored lately. I shouldn’t be, there is plenty to get done. I’m simply not in the mood to do it. Maybe bored is not the right word, I’m a bit distracted, somewhere else. Stacks and piles, lists and emails, all needing attention, some past due, some embarrassingly late, and yet I sit.…
I like old things. Which is weird because I don’t like wrinkled paper. I always flip to a new clean sheet. I can not tolerate pens with the ends chewed or a pencil sharpened down to a nub. I like fresh pencils and if a pen has a missing or mangled cap, I throw it out.…
I need a new car. I mean I don’t really “need” one. Mine still runs, but it’s too big now that my children are older and it has 192,000 miles. The leather on my passenger seat split, so I bought these fancy seat covers, but they’re squirmy and move around a bit. They feel like…
A recent encounter with the lotion ladies could be the beginning of my holiday spirit. That would mean it’s super early this year. I was at Walgreens, my favorite putzing around convincing myself I need Tic Tacs store, looking for a new lotion. The lotion I currently use is too expensive and I’m tired of spending that kind of…
I could never be a turtle. I know they are used in advertisements and they look so cute, but turtles in real life seem tired. Their shells appear heavy, like they’ve lived too long. The turtle life is not for me. I want to go a good length, I’m sure death is no picnic, but I really…
She had never wanted to grow up, but it happened without her permission. She was tradition, roots, a tender, the oldest, she was calm. Life moved along and as society would dictate, she tried to keep up, be the person she was supposed to be. She ran faster, pushed up, made up, drank up and somewhere along the…
I used to wear overalls. I don’t anymore. I can’t figure out if I stopped wearing them because they became off trend, or if I just decided they were no longer a good look for me. Also, why don’t I roll my jeans anymore? Is that because no one else is doing it anymore, so I…
I will be another year older next week. One more 365 day rotation completed. I will be baking my own cake. This year I have chosen the Chocolate Lavender Cake with Mascarpone Earl Grey German Buttercream. If I was looking for an accurate self reflection at this point in my life, I would probably go with the…
I’m not always sure we are heading in the right direction. Plant based, gluten free, dairy free, fish oils, chia seeds, vitamins, juicing…the list goes on and on, and while I participate in much of it, some days I wonder why. My grandparents didn’t take vitamins, they smoked, drank with friends. My grandmother made things…