Envy is not a fun feeling to experience.
When I was asked to contribute to a terrific website based out of the United Kingsom called Having Time.com, I knew I wanted to write about this version of green (but not the good kind of green like planetary or juicing). Continue reading
My daughter, 14, proudly describes herself as a “geek.”
And last year, along with her brother, 12, they began lobbying hard for my husband and I to take them to ConnectiCon in Hartford, Connecticut.
What is ConnectiCon, you may wonder?
Why it’s the Constitution State’s answer to Comic-Con (the seminal comic book convention incepted in San Diego, CA in 1970). Continue reading
Greetings All! I’ve been thinking how very grateful I am for each and everyone of you. After all, I know how busy we are and how our in-boxes fill up so quickly, it’s hard to make time for extras like, … Continue reading
This is a post about a simple pleasure.
Where I live, it feels like it’s been a bit of a long winter.
Usually I’m relatively fine with it, since given my ancestry (Irish, English, Scottish), I think I’m hard-wired to hibernate during long cold winters.
However, perhaps due to my hard-wiring or just my inert disposition (either way, I take responsibility for both), I can all too easily stay home for days at time without even realizing it.
After one snow storm, I didn’t clean off my car for nearly three days. If it hadn’t been for the snow, I wouldn’t have noticed that I was being such a yoga-panted hermit. Continue reading
It’s no secret that I am an optimist and have been so all of my life.
However, being a lifelong optimist has never prevented me from experiencing pain, fear, doubt, longing, vulnerability, loss, betrayal, grief, powerlessness, or rejection.
This isn’t a secret per se, but it may be a surprise to those who perceive optimism as whitewashing, a sweeping under the rug, or an avoidance of life’s unpleasantness. Continue reading
Happy New Year Friends! I don’t know about you, but 2013 felt less like a year and more like a semester. What? What do you mean it’s already time for finals? I JUST got here… Therefore, I am not creating … Continue reading