Earlier today one of my Tribe members shared this post from the Word Porn Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thispageisaboutwords/photos/a.252010398268137/1946903118778848/?type=3&theater It was an aha moment for me. I mean, I remember when I was in my twenties and thinking how far away 1999 seemed. And here we are. Approaching 2020. Of course that induces immediate panic at the […]
Lessons I've Learned
Perfection And Success Are Not The Same Thing
About six weeks ago I purchased a 12-week online strength training program. I bought it for a couple of different reasons. The first is that I continue to struggle with strength training consistently. At fifty years old, I am fifteen years into the stage of life where I am losing muscle unless I do something […]
My Baby Is Not Such A Baby Anymore
Number 7 turned eight years old on Saturday. She asked for: cake ice cream seaweed (the kind you eat) Nutri grain bars a Lego set a watch a scooter with nothing girly on it and a dog She got a cake (decorated by Number 4) and ice cream, seaweed and Nutri grain bars (she tried […]
27 Months
Yesterday was 27 months with no alcohol. That is a statement I didn’t ever really envision myself typing. Or saying. I was not a daily drinker and often I wasn’t really even a weekly drinker. Not since becoming a parent, anyway. But when I drank, I DRANK. All or nothing, baby. Even as a mom […]
Worrying Is Fruitless
How many hours — or days — of your life have you spent worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet? About something that may never happen? About something that could, possibly, at some point down the road, happen to you or one of your kids? How many horrible scenarios have you conjured up in your […]
A Self-Imposed Strike
I just woke up from a three hour nap. I haven’t taken a three hour nap on a Saturday in a very long time. A VERY LONG TIME. Part of that is due to our schedule. We have swim practice on Saturday mornings and baseball games and a lacrosse clinic on Saturday afternoons. Soon we […]
