*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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Life’
Whirling and whirling
Posted: January 24, 2012 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, backtrack, forget, humor, Life, living, meds, shiny
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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 [...]
Pretzel Man
Posted: October 28, 2010 in LifeTags: although they really should call it "torture plan", good thing my damned medical plan pays for this, Life, massage, not that I'm complaining, pain
My luck with massages has been inconsistent. The first time was when my then-wife and I went on holiday to Montreal. She was going back to the hotel room for a nap and I was too wired to sleep. So, having seen a sign in the elevator advertising their massage service, I said “you know [...]
“My thoughts are like butterflies”, he said. “They’re beautiful. But they fly away.” It was a lament offered up a little boy, and quoted in the book “Delivered from Distraction”. I nodded furiously. Kind of stupid isn’t it? Nodding at something you read in a book. Sort of like clapping at the end of a [...]
For once, the office was quiet. Me and my iPad came in and found a seat among the multitude of empty chairs. The doctor, who was standing by the reception desk looking through medical charts, glanced at me over her glasses and smiled. I smiled back. I like her. But then, I have a predisposition of goodwill to [...]
Sitting near the back of the bus, I had a clear view of the girl, as she sat at the front. Her face was as busy as it gets, as she thought through various possibilities, reactions, memories and events. It was hard not to smile. She was doing what I do – her mind was processing at [...]
They finally caught up to me. It feels like months ago that I learned that the ADHD doc who was supposed to see me in July died. At least a month ago. I wondered back when I heard the news whether I would show up on the scheduled date, only to be met at the [...]
