December 17 prompt from ReSound11: What's the one thing you've come to appreciate most in the past year? I can't choose just one….seriously, I'm supposed to choose just one?! Impossible, when I sit and actually think of everything in my life. There's no way to really compare so many different things from different parts of [...]

Every so often I get the itch to return to school. I struggle with the duality of the desire; how it's practical on one level and would allow me the opportunity to teach for a living and how impractical (and seemingly impossible) it would be to add another responsibility to my overflowing plate. When the [...]

Being held accountable to your own stuff can be quite an eye-opener, no? Take today's #Reverb11 prompt: 12 Things: What are 12 things your life doesn't need in 2012? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 12 things change your life? (Props to original Author: Sam Davidson)  If you did [...]

Here we are….the end of Thanksgiving weekend, still with scraps of turkey left in a gelatinous pool of gravy in a tupperware container in the fridge, already embarking on Advent and the mad dash to Christmas. It's not that I don't love the holiday, because I truly do. It's the gift thing that drives me [...]

I love when people share their dating stories. Since I'm working on a book of my own about my (mis)adventures in dating after divorce,  it's comforting and somewhat reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who's experienced  too many 'what the hell just happened here' moments to count. I've "known" Daniel, the brains [...]

Welcome to the July 1st One Little Word Blog Hop. Huge thanks to  Margie, who brings this whole hop together! If you're going in order, you've just visited Kathryn's site  and next on the list is Amanda. If you're bouncing around, you can find the entire list at the bottom of this post. And if you [...]

There are days when hearing from a friend is what gets you (ok, me) through the day; then there are days that you (ok, I) just can't stop  grinning because they do something so nice that it just makes your day. My friend Diana, the inspirational woman behind The Studio 56, suprised me earlier this [...]

I dove into January, (somewhat) bright eyed and excited at the prospect of a new year. Not unlike the beginning of a new school year, it felt ripe with potential. I had lovely visions of transformation. I thought of instantly rearranging  my schedule and morphing my habits into ones that are at once productive, efficient, creative and [...]

This was sent to me by my bestest friend Cheryl. Perfect timing and timeless advice. Though I did a little google, and learned on Snopes that Ms. Brett isn’t 90 after all. You can read about the hullabaloo here on her blog. I’m pasting her original list, plus the 5 she added on a subsequent [...]

Feeling a bit too restless lately. Not that there’s a lack of anything to do. Just the opposite actually–seems that even though I thrive on overload and pressure, when it gets to be just too much I become scattered and can’t seem to focus on anything like I should. I jump from one thing to [...]