image from messiahmom.comI am vain. Yep, there you have it. In print. Well, sort of in print.I just went for my first run in my new year. It was really hard - it was humid and I have been indulgent this week, as I should be. Despite the challenges, I'm pleased I went because I … Continue reading Confession: at 45 years + 3 days
Category: aging
45 Things I’ve learned this year
1. I prefer my surgery with local anaesthesia.2. There is a huge difference between having one's heart broken and having your ego stomped on. The first situation requires time to heal, the later demands a realistic examination of what the relationship really meant means.3. Part time parenting is the dirty little secret of divorce. … Continue reading 45 Things I’ve learned this year
Boy man
What can you say about a kid quickly becoming a man? I mean, I'm talking about a young teen on the express route physically, and perhaps even intellectually, to adulthood. He is taller by the second as his height wrestles with the size of his feet for ultimate dominance, and his hair and voice are … Continue reading Boy man
What are you afraid of?
When did the thought of doing something new become an occasion we were more afraid of than challenged by?I've been thinking about fear and its ability to paralyze a person. How many opportunities do we deny ourselves because we are afraid of what may happen if we take that step in a new direction? In … Continue reading What are you afraid of?
Table for 5 (or why dinner as a family can be continued despite impending divorce)
I believe most people get married believing it is forever, not for ever. Introducing children to a relationship adds some additional concrete to the mix and, when all is said and done within the marriage and it is time to move on from being a couple, the presence of children continues to cement the two … Continue reading Table for 5 (or why dinner as a family can be continued despite impending divorce)
Running through the pain
image from: wholeironwoman.comThe good news is that the thing with my right glute that had been bothering me seems to have resolved itself. I wish I could say it was because of the awesome stretches my chiropractor, Lee Masterson at Delmar Chiropractic had shown me, but, honestly, I haven't been vigilant about doing them. I … Continue reading Running through the pain
MIA: Love
Where does all that love go? That passion that had brought the two of you together? It isn't randomly floating around in our universe, for certain. At least not in that combined, intense state. There definitely were bits of it being circulated about, perhaps even covering a wide geographic range, but it was falling more … Continue reading MIA: Love
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