Enter the body of a woman about to turn 50 and you’ll want to run to the nearest refrigerator – it’s hot in there! The waves of hot flashes started at 42 but they come and go and go and come with no rhyme or reason. Couple that with a head cold and it’s own brand of fever and wheezing and coughing and it is a recipe for no sleep whatsoever. All in all its…
There is a zen saying that whenever a door closes, another opens and basically that sums up my life in general with maybe an added twist, which is that hardly ever has something great happened to me that wasn’t tempered by something not so great simultaneously occurring. So it is that life has a way of being awe inducing and humbling all in the same breath. We entered the realm of adoption ignorant and every…
Okay, so it’s the end of the year. There are all the reports to finish, cards to send out, parties to be had or attend, but my god, where is the time to sit back and reflect before the New Year comes rushing in a like a house on fire? It’s always go go go.
I’d like to begin by saying that I don’t think anything is set in stone and that if you don’t like something change it but I’ve yet to have a Monday it seems in recent history that wasn’t fraught with too many people vying for too little time. Why that is?
My mom called yesterday evening to say she really enjoyed the party. We were talking about what makes a good party. Certainly, Gal Holiday playing is a big plus. But I told her, it’s the hostesses job to bring the party out of the right people – and what we had here Saturday night was a glorious mix of the right people even though most are off center and not right, and needless to say…
We’ve been planning a party to celebrate the ins and outs of everything and finally got around to putting it on the calendar for December 13th. We sent a save the date email out to friends back in September, and responses ranged from why are you bothering me now about a party in December to a few believing that we were going to tie the knot or do something strange, hence the In and Out.…
I wrote before about European friends of ours who were so taken by the volunteer spirit in America when filming their documentary about Katrina. Today the following came across one of my email groups and it is more evidence of how the average person has not foresaken New Orleans and still wants to help – the only people it seems who have not offered to help are, let’s see, the president, his cabinet, FEMA, the…
The word of the day is arbitrary and this sort of ties into what I was broaching on yesterday’s topic as it pertained to the article in the Atlantic. Our emotional buttons are not arbitrary but there are ways to rewire everything that comes at you. Last night, I spent a fitful sleep contemplating again – contemplating a feeling of being a microbe adrift in a sea of fluorescent green jello. My body actually had…
A friend sent an article from the Atlantic about how your last sensation is the one you perceive the strongest, so that sometimes what you think you experienced was not what really happened. Today, I woke still peaked from this virus and looked out the window to see snow. Then the electricity went off and as the house grew colder, I finally took Loca outside to see what the snow was all about. My neighbor…
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