As we age, as I’m finding this out, we can go one of two ways (I’m sure there’s more, but for this post, I’m keeping it at two): we can raise our standards or not. I’ve raised my standards. I see things I put up with or ignored that are now unacceptable. I realize […]
This is an age-old question, I’m sure, wondered by many of us. I got to an age, and I think, Dear God, how did the time go by so fast? Can I even remember it all? Can anyone? It feels like I wake up in the morning and a week has past and […]
Light shows what’s in front of us. Whether we’re driving at night, putting a booklight on a book, or wanting to see our way along a darkened path, light illuminates so we can see better. What have you been shining the light on in your life? There’s this phenomenon: what we focus on, we […]
I’ve been polishing my nails since I was a teenager. Back then, I guess I just wore whatever nail polish was available to me. As an adult in my twenties and thirties, I leaned toward bright pink colors. It seemed to go well with my black Swatch watch. Time marched on as it always does, […]
As of late, life has been harried, and I’ve been feeling a lot of anxiety. Pressure is all around me. It was getting to be too much, like in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) when Princess Leia, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca are trapped in a trash compactor on the […]
While watching the figure skaters at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, I came up with this theory on how we skate through life. If you think about it, just like a pro athlete, we spend years doing the same things over and over and get really good at whatever the program is for […]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin We think nothing of training our pets. We want them to sit when we say “sit.” We want them not to make messes in our houses, so we teach them what is and is not okay. If we have kids, we teach them right from wrong (hopefully), manners, and […]
Those of you out there (like me) who often think about “someday” for your life to be great, I have some news for you (and myself). Today is the day. I know it seems like a big feat to believe that today you are living your great life, but it’s true. For most of my […]
I’m a chocolate girl. I love dark chocolate with pretzels or nuts. I make my own chocolate bark with those things, and it is yummy! I try not to eat it every day, but according to the latest health studies, dark chocolate is good for us. So, what could be better than that? The […]
I walked into my office, and my eyes glanced at the top shelf of the desk hutch, which brought back a memory I’d rather not think about. I stopped myself from thinking that, as I wrote in my last blog post, and recognized its source. Then I thought something I didn’t before – Get […]