AGE
Working at a place that serves alcohol, you end up carding a lot of people. If there is one thing I know for sure these days, its that I am terrible at knowing how old people are from their looks. (But I am REALLY good […]
Category: Musings
NEW MONTH, FRESH START
I try really hard not to live too much in the future, worrying about what’s next and not appreciating today. But my September calendar needs to go away already. It was just full. Don’t get me wrong. It was a good month! It was perhaps […]
ENCOURAGEMENT
Earlier this week, I saw and shared a post on Facebook from a high school in Michigan about their way of honoring the 17 students lost in the Parkland, Florida school shooting a month prior. “They were each given 17 sticky notes to symbolize the […]
IT’S A LOT
Have you ever noticed how life can just cruise along with everything just clicking along. The occasional high. The occasional low. But mostly it just stays steady. And then seemingly out of the blue, as if you’ve hit turbulence in an airplane, its up and […]
THAT’S A WRAP ON 2017
We all tend to do a final look back on the previous year and/or a look to the future on December 31st. We count our successes. We analyze our failures. We prepare for whats to come in the next 12 months. As I look back […]
CHRISTMAS WISHES
My husband came home today after being on the road for over a month. And he came home to a wife who has had the Christmas Spirit better than she has in years. (Uhm. That would be me, for anyone not following along.) When my […]
LIFE HAPPENS
I realize as I sit down here to write, I haven’t posted a blog since September. That’s unheard of for me. As someone who at one time journaled daily, to go two and a half months without writing at all just sounds absurd. The fact […]
PART OF THE PROBLEM
Last night I angrily wrote out a Facebook post in a notepad app on my phone. I had my husband read it. He said I should go ahead and post it. But just before hitting send, I backed out of it. I wanted time to […]