“Well, if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn’t have stood you up,” said the bartender. “Thanks,” I said, doing my best to hold myself together as I plopped down his tip, hopped off the bar stool I’d kept warm for a half hour, and headed out the door. I’m not a big fan…
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The Story of our Lives
“If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think…
How many do you need?
I’m helping my parents get ready for their garage sale this weekend. This is a momentous occasion as they have lived in this house for over 25 years and in that time have had only one other garage sale I can recall. On the other hand, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen…
Spiritual Spa Day – Part 2
I’m a believer that if something works for you, then do it. If walking across hot coals makes your sciatica disappear, then fire up the grill. If a two hundred pound man walking on your back somehow improves your digestion, then go for it. So when the third presenter at my Spiritual Spa Day brought…
The Spiritual Spa Day – Part 1
Back in January, I signed up for a Spiritual Spa Day at Linwood – the retreat center three miles from my house run by the Sisters of St. Ursuline. I signed up far in advance of the May date. It was not just the content of the day, but the date that caused me to…
A random, bizarre thought
A most bizarre thing happened this morning. I was standing in front of my full length mirror in my underwear and thought I looked good enough to pull off a bikini this summer. This is bizarre because I have never in my life had this thought. The closest I’ve come to wearing anything that looked…
Help From The Competition
Fear and mystery – those are the two things I felt when I first found out a professional organizer was sitting in the back of my first organizing class. The fear dissipated as I continued my presentation and saw her nodding her head in encouragement. The mystery was completely solved when I took her up…
Another Reason to Dine Alone
I much prefer eating with company than all alone. But sometimes I want to go out to eat and there’s not a soul available to join me. Such was the case tonight. I was between activities and needed some nourishment. I get quite moody when I’m hungry. Think of that movie with the Gremlins. You…
Ten Other Lives
On Saturday, there was an exercise in my Simple Abundance book that asked me to list 10 other lives I’d like to lead. As you can imagine, I didn’t have much trouble with this. I come up with new lives to lead just about every week. Sometimes more often than that. But the nice thing…
A Different Perspective
“I feel like those anemones in that vase over there,” said my piano teacher as she sat in her living room, her rolling walker off to the side of her chair. I looked at the purple, red, and white flowers in the vase behind me. “It’s like they’re imprisoned in that vase,” she went on….
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