“To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.” Unknown Source The office appointment was at 10:00 a.m. It was 9:31 and the paperwork was somewhere in one of four locations: three piles of papers (mail, notes, birthday cards, books, CD’s) or in the filing cabinet. No luck with it [...]
Continue reading...26. May 2010
This morning as I cleaned out a cubbie in my nightstand I found a buried treasure that hadn’t seen the light of day for eighteen months. It was a gift that shrouded the day. It is tattered and worn (kinda like me). I have carried and caressed it for 38 years, cried with it, laughed [...]
Continue reading...6. April 2010
There are moments when I’m sure that Abbie, my 4.5 lb. toy poodle, has a stronger innate sense than I do. One minute before the recent California earthquakes she started barking and running in wide circles around the family room. When the earth started rockin’ and rollin’ she was huddled up to us, watching out [...]
Continue reading...30. March 2010
It was Saturday night and I had walked the equivalent of several miles that day. My brother dropped me off at Aladdin Café and went to park his car. When my right foot hit the curb the left one did not respond and I fell flat on my face. How humiliating! Having lived with multiple [...]
Continue reading...24. March 2010
“Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.” Wikepedia Having read an insightful article on the Power of Thoughts and the Written Word, which explains how words actually change [...]
Continue reading...11. February 2010
“When I suffer a setback, I don’t think of myself as losing, I’m simply learning how to win.” Ted Turner There are books that I call “just one more chapter” books. That means that when you crack the spine (begin to read), you can’t put ‘em down. Suddenly hours have slipped by and you’re finishing [...]
Continue reading...3. February 2010
There are those moments in your life when time stops and years later you can remember exactly where you were, what you were wearing and the adrenalin rush of feelings that welled up inside you. Here are a few snippets of those magical moments that I recall: When I received the first box of maraschino [...]
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3. June 2010
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