Well, hello there. You may not remember me as my last blog entry was in late 2014. Prior to that blog entry I amassed over 1,800 blog entries over a five year period. I guess you could say blogging was "my thing" - until it wasn't. Moving from daily blogging to periodic blogging to no [...]
Undoubtedly the best thing about my blog are the readers who comment or contact me with their thoughts. I appreciate that folks give up some of their time to read my blog and comment - I know that posting one's thoughts, beliefs, and feelings on open blogs can be intimidating. Many of my regular blog readers and posters [...]
Well, here we are - four full years into the new forty today. Today I am 54 - one lone year from being officially old enough to order off the senior menu. Yippee!!!! No really - YIPPEE!!!! I am happy to still be on the planet as not everyone gets to stick around until my [...]
On Lea Grover's blog on the Huffington Post she portrays herself as a writer and toddler-wrangler. What a perfect combination. The world of parenting is rife with material to write about - material that so many folks can identify with - funny stuff, sentimental stuff, infuriating stuff, it is all there in the wonderful world [...]
When I am tasked with writing things I do not particularly want to write, it is a painful process. Even if it is a short 1,000 word piece, it can take 10 times longer to write than a piece on something I am excited about. The extraction of every sentence is long and excruciating. I [...]
Three years - or in The New Forty count - one thousand and ninety-five days. Whoa. I need to step back and take a breath. I really wasn't sure if I had it in me at the outset. Ah, but the proof is in the pudding. Apparently, there is all kinds of "stuff" in me [...]
I have long realized that children may not do what you say, but they are always watching what you do and tend to follow suit. I know...gratifying, but a bit scary. It is all about the role modeling. As a perfectly imperfect person the notion that the way I live my life likely creates an imprint for [...]
THE NEW FORTY 