Today is Miss Sparkle's 14th birthday. And no, that isn't an April Fool's Day joke...well, at least not this year. As I say every year on this day, the universe was likely trying to layer on a sarcastic commentary when I had Cheyenne on April 1, 1999 - just three months before my 40th birthday. [...]
Tag: time flies
The zen room…
Cheyenne is in the process of switching bedrooms in the house. She waged a long campaign and enlisted the support of her siblings to likewise campaign on her behalf. After a couple of years I finally acquiesced to the constant begging and occasional nagging. You wouldn't think moving from one room to another in the [...]
Tick…tock…tick…tock
My fortune from my fortune cookie today reads as follows: The measure of time to your next goal is the measure of your discipline. Ah, the wisdom of the fortune cookie. Once again, it nailed me. In fact, I found the fortune so prophetic that I taped it to my laptop where it could remind [...]
Brand new…
Welcome to the brand new year - 2012. If you are in the new forty you realize that 2012 is the future you heard about as a child that was going to be Jetson-like (as in - meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane, his wife). Heck, if you are in the new [...]
Life is just so daily.
I have to agree with Mary Engelbreit. Life is just so daily. I am feeling it today as I ease back into the semester grind. Okay, maybe “ease” is not the right word. It is probably more appropriately characterized as “a frantic gallop” (and visually I think that captures it as well). Oh, don’t get [...]
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
The end of another year…where does the time go? I can’t quite recall how I time-warped from the eighties to now, but some days it seems like that was the last time my life was slow enough for me to recognize the passage of days as opposed to weeks and months. I wonder about the [...]
THE NEW FORTY 