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January 15th, 2012 Resetting the Compass – Day 15
Sunday afternoon, enjoying the four “F words” – family, food, football, and fire. All four of us, each in our respective chairs, grouped around the TV and, at the same time engaged in our iThings. I put my iThing down and picked up my big, thick Sunday paper. I . . . → Read More: When IS Too Much, Too Much?
January 14th, 2012 Orange juice has lead me to one conclusion : life is difficult and always will be. The ducks will never be in a row. (This is not a bad thing)
Resetting the Compass – Day 14
I love that commercial where someone is sitting sitting around their breakfast table with all the problems that are . . . → Read More: OJ
January 12th, 2012 I can just hear Mrs. O on The Talk. “I am appalled! Imagine! A member of the clergy saying that!” Yesterday I felt like Mrs O. Resetting the Compass – Day 12
Last night, on the Boston news, they went to a few churches in Boston and asked the pastors how they felt about Tim . . . → Read More: Tim Tebow – I Am Infuriated!
January 5th, 2012 Resetting the compass – Day 5
This morning at the gym I was banging out a much needed workout to the Born This Way soundtrack. Lady G wrote this song mainly for our young people to send the message to them that they are just fine the way they were made and not to let . . . → Read More: Born MY Way
January 4th, 2012 Resetting the compass: Day 4 (It’s becoming obvious to me that that is what January is going to be all about.)
This morning my husband had an early appointment with the heart doctor to discuss the next steps on his path of arterial fibrillation. We were going to a specialist to see if he needed . . . → Read More: [sic]
January 3rd, 2012 Resetting the Compass – Day 3:
Today on my drive to NY a discussion about New Year’s Resolutions was on the radio. It was said that the best way to set a resolution that has the best chance of being kept is to state it positively. The girl calling this in said she made the . . . → Read More: 2012 – Start Positive!
December 31st, 2011 It is the day when we stop and look at where we’ve been for the last twelve months and adjust our compass for where we’re going in the next twelve. You can’t move forward until you stop and look at where you’ve been. That was the biggest lesson I learned this year because it was . . . → Read More: You Know What Day It Is
December 30th, 2011 First thing this morning grief and loss were laid across my table. Max Lucardo wrote about having to face your grief and loss. He described it as I lived it, perfectly:
“The giant stirs up loss of appetite, insomnia, forgetfulness, thoughts of suicide. Grief is not a mental illness, but sure feels like one sometimes. . . . → Read More: One Last Lesson
December 27th, 2011 Tonight on the news they were doing a sports story and talking to a team owner on the football field. Next to the owner was a young girl, very expensively dressed. As I was checking out her huge Coach bag, the thought of what it would feel like to have “real” money graced my brain . . . → Read More: No Lottery For Me
December 23rd, 2011 Christmas, if you look past the shopping, presents, cleaning, food prep, decorating, and wrapping, is a wonderful holiday all on its own. It’s the only holiday that doesn’t matter what your past was like, who your family was, or whether or not you even had one. Neither your nationality, religion, tribe, or country you live . . . → Read More: This Thing Called Christmas
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