Image credit Warning: A small part of this post below is deeply disturbing, but if you hang on the emotional investment pays off. Converted bully: Hey Lindy, I don’t know why or even when I started trolling you. It wasn’t because of your stance on rape jokes. I don’t find them funny either. I think my anger towards […]
Category: Inspiration – Personal Growth
Whores-de-vores
Have you ever butchered a word? I mean just bloodied the poor thing? I took French for 7 years and I still can’t pronounce sommelier, the wine expert at restaurants. I’ve asked. I’ve sounded it out. I can’t do it. I give up. There’s been plenty of non-foreign words I’ve mangled but I can’t remember. […]
Jesus and Jello. Why I liked my religious buffet growing up.
Image credit: Wikipedia Excerpted from my essay “Jesus and Jello” I was raised with a la carte religion, a buffet line of a little bit here, a little bit there, mostly Methodist with a dash of Presbyterian. From time to time my mother brought my sister and I to our local church’s Sunday school […]
Robin Williams: Our brilliant masked man.
I couldn’t figure out why I woke up this morning still thinking about Robin Williams. My husband offhandedly asked me yesterday why he thinks he did it, and maybe he asked me because no one can grasp why this beautiful brilliant man who made us snort laugh took himself from his family and fans. Or […]
My friend: Ironman athlete’s journey with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Image: Courtesy of Joy Von Werder and Oviedo-Winter Springs Life magazine. I wrote the following article about my friend Joy because I’m awed by her athleticism and courage, and because she wants to use her story to help raise awareness for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. CMT is the most commonly inherited neuromuscular disorder in the world. Joy […]
Church only on Christmas and Easter? What would Jesus say? I bet I can guess.
Image source: By zole4, published on 17 September 2011 My teen daughter, once a frequent flyer at church with children and youth programs, now has to be dragged to church once a month. Sleep wins. I’m now fine with this. I’ve largely left mainstream religion and am leaning towards joining our Unitarian Universalist. My love […]
These attitudes are still head shakers for me. Finding muddy love.
That’s all we have sometimes, some version of The Golden Rule and muddy love – Laura In the category of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” topics that make you do one of those cartoon double takes in your mind and think, did I really just read that? Dear Amy: I recently discovered that my […]
Are you afraid to fire your doctor?
Healers heal with more than their medicine. Bedside manner sinks into our reactive minds and cells and makes a difference – Laura This summer at the beach I found out I had the dreaded shingles (Here’s my shingles story and how I got rid of this nasty crud). I’m 47ish, healthy and not under extreme stress. My case […]
Is feeling crappy our new normal? Telling our age and hedonism
We get used to feeling slightly crappy until less than, becomes our new normal. Less sleep. Less energy. Less joy. The maintenance of blah to speak. Soon enough we forget laughing and vitality is the natural state of being. I confess. Fully embracing sags, wrinkles and grays is for the more enlightened among us. Mind you […]
Making our mundane tasks, not
I recall years back Oprah had a woman on her show who talked about the Zen of honoring day-to-day to-dos, that we can decide to appreciate the mundane and become consciously aware of ourselves in the moment of doing even the most “trivial” tasks. She gave an example of doing laundry and trying to find […]