A month ago, a friend had challenged me to sit for an hour, just to concentrate – and maybe pray – about where I want to be, what I wanted to. It was a goal that was fairly open-ended. I did. I sat on the floor, on my yoga mat (shaddap) with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Life’
Curious Questions for You
Posted: May 21, 2012 in Life, livingTags: anger, awareness, creativity, Life, living, music, universe, writing
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The Persistent Bachelor
Posted: April 28, 2012 in dating, Life, living, romanceTags: damage, dating, Life, mates, relationships
“So why aren’t you with someone by now?” He shrugged. ”I don’t know.” Her arched eyebrow provoked further explanation. ”Honestly, I really don’t know.” “You don’t seem worried about it. Do you care?” He felt lucky to have her as a friend. He had a penchant for gravitating to truth-tellers. People who would say [...]
Smiling Silence
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Life, living, romanceTags: coincidence, Life, links, purpose, unexplainable
“Seems like…..I can’t explain it.” He shook his head. She nudged his foot with hers. “Try.” He sipped his coffee, thinking. Remembering. ——– They had met a little over two months ago, in the middle of what he thought was the worst time of his life. One morning he had arrived at work, unaware [...]
But Why?
Posted: March 25, 2012 in Life, living, religionTags: coincidence, curiosity, faith, God, Life, questions
Someone once asked me why I believe in God. There was a slight tone of disbelief and maybe a hint of derision swirling around with the query as it sailed through the air to my ears. Still, it was a honest curiosity from a guy who, while he didn’t believe in God, certainly [...]
Leaping from the Norm
Posted: March 4, 2012 in humor, Life, living, romanceTags: comedy, improv, Life, living, passion, risks, romance, skydiving
He took a long slow slip of his Chardonnay. It was a great night – he couldn’t think of a single thing to make it better. Well maybe one thing. A girl he’d been seeing. He loved her smile, and her unpredictable thoughts. And her long long legs. He realized that he missed her. [...]
Whirling and whirling
Posted: January 24, 2012 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, backtrack, forget, humor, Life, living, meds, shiny
*thinking* “Shoot, I’m late. Better call a cab.” “Wait. I’m not nearly ready and if I rush I’m going to forget something. Better get everything together first, then when I’m about five minutes from being ready – THEN call.” “Good.” I nodded to myself. “Smart thinking” I ignored the brightly coloured fairy lights flitting around [...]
Sometimes the privilege come your way and you don’t even realize it until the moment’s gone. That serendipitous moment that leaves you stunned and staring in disbelief. You don’t even want to move, because you might blink and in blinking you might miss a crucial half second of this moment. So you just stand there, [...]
Voyeur and Voyager
Posted: November 21, 2011 in Life, living, writingTags: art, bits and bites, creativity, death, disease, instability, Jitterbug Perfume, joy, Life, nesting, The Machine, Tom Robbins, writing
How much electronic pain must be suffered at the delighted hands of masochistic fairy muses, who flit about teasing the writer with half-formed ideas? All day long this one has been continually dive-bombed by brilliant sparkling thoughts, only to see them fade away as soon as the mental hand reaches out to grasp. At [...]
Advice to My Teenage Self
Posted: November 13, 2011 in ADHD, Life, livingTags: acting, ADHD, advice, awareness, empathy, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, music, open mind, prejudice
If you could write a letter to yourself when you were sixteen, what would you say? Joseph Galliano, an editor, has compiled a list of letters from people many of us know, and has created a book from that collection, entitled “Dear Me. A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self”. So….. What would I say? It [...]
Rocky Romances
Posted: August 19, 2011 in dating, humor, LifeTags: broken hearts, drinking, Life, Monday, romance, weekend, wild
Look, Monday. You can’t keep showing up on my doorstep. Every time you do, you say the same thing. “We can make it work.” And, “I promise you, this time I won’t mess you up. I’ll set the alarm this time. Make you some coffee.” Every time, I let you in, and every time – [...]
Move
Posted: June 11, 2011 in Life, livingTags: Life, movers, moving, sometimes you pay good money for stress avoidance
There’s a certain senseless joy that comes unexpectedly sometimes. A sense that everything is ridiculously OK. Better than OK. Good. Better than good – but precise words escape you. Recently, this happened during what would have been an otherwise stressful time. Mind you, part of the catalyst for this was planned. Years ago, when I [...]
Longing for The Rapture – or a Heart Attack
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Life, livingTags: depression, divorce, dogma, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, The Rapture
So we’ve come through the weekend and no rapture has occurred. No planes fell out of the sky, pilotless, no suddenly empty chairs at restaurants, no sets of clothes sitting on park benches, no empty operating tables, with nurses and doctors scratching their heads, wondering where the open heart surgery patient went. For most of [...]
You need to understand: she would not have approved this post. It wasn’t her style. She was not a braggart – about herself or any of her kids. She preferred actions to speak for themselves. She’s not here to stop me. And it’s a post I’ve wanted to write for quite some time – [...]
Paradigm Delight
Posted: March 20, 2011 in Life, religionTags: acceptance, church on a hill, God, Life, music, religion
I’ve tried to write about this before, and have never felt that I’ve been able to do it justice. Now that it’s 3:00 a.m. and there’s a virus keeping me awake, maybe I can form the right thoughts a little better. You can be the judge. When you grow up in a fairly strict Roman [...]
Imagine a thin little boy. Maybe he’s 60 pounds or so. And, as he hasn’t yet reached adolescence, he is still short. Now, imagine a large black-haired man, who is roughly six feet tall. He usually walks around without a shirt on, so that you could see his massive belly stretched out over the belt [...]
Passion and Hope
Posted: January 15, 2011 in dating, LifeTags: first love, Life, passion, romance, sisters
He was interested in her sister Angelica, really. She was interesting. Vibrant, laughing all the time. Angelica always had something outrageous to say. And he, being the quiet introvert, was attracted to her. And they were in the same class together. He was trying to figure out his approach when one day she whispered in [...]
Lighthouses and Dark Waters
Posted: December 29, 2010 in LifeTags: chameleon, chaos, darkness, euphoria, Life, peace, religion
There would be dark moments, and each one seemed logical. As far as he knew, everyone had moments like these. Everyone. So what if others managed those moments better than he did? It just meant he had to try a little harder, that’s all. Like the time he stood at the entrance of a [...]
Writing That Novel
Posted: October 31, 2010 in ADHD, Life, writingTags: ADD, Executive Function, Life, NaNoWriMo, Novel, writing
There is something a little satisfying about meeting a group of people who have something in common with you. I realized the joy of that when I attended an ADD support group recently. Having been formerly diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder a few weeks ago, I’ve made up my mind to do something about [...]
