There is a decorative sign that says, "Sometimes I wake up crabby, and sometimes I let him sleep." It usually comes in both a "him" and "her" version. Today I felt like the "her" version. I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed - the side with the wall on it - [...]
Tag: Attitude
Do you water the grass?
Someone said, "Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet." Should I worry that I understand this explanation all too well? I just keep muttering to myself that this level of stress cannot last forever. It will either be the death of me or eventually dissipate. I am [...]
New rules!
The Princess of Quite-A-Lot is back from her summer-long sojourn with her father and order is restored in the kingdom...with "order" being a relative term. A kingdom with a Queen in the new forty and a Princess of Quite-A-Lot of the age 11 is one helluva' a kingdom. One might argue that no moat or [...]
Three and half inches…
This photo was taken by Misty of Dreaming In Color Photography as part of a photo shoot this past Tuesday designed to capture my start point for my goal for year two of the new forty - which starts in a few days. I'll be sharing more on that on my birthday. I love this [...]
A proponent of warning labels…
Something set me off kilter yesterday - actually someone - and that had a downhill spiral effect on my mood for the rest of the day. So the person who set me off kilter created a pay-it-forward movement wherein I shared my downwarding spiral mood with the rest of my world which then undoubtedly rippled [...]
Must. Change. Attitude.
Sadly, I must report that the above is a fairly accurate portrayal of my disposition today. I am not quite sure when exactly my attitude went south, but I think it was somewhere between when my eyes opened and my feet hit the bedroom floor. Luckily for all human beings concerned I have been at [...]
Abandoning my “ish”…
This past February I went to Ghana to work with their emergency management agency and one of their higher education institutions to begin planning for what will ultimately lead to the first emergency management degree program in the country. It was a phenomenal experience. I’ll share all the details another time though as today I [...]
THE NEW FORTY 