An arctic blast has rolled across Texas this week.  From talking to my bother and sister who lives in Arkansas and Missouri respectively, Texas is not alone is this nature’s crippling blow.  This is the third snow for Central Texas this year.  Unheard of!  My sister’s house in Missouri had 17 below zero, my brother […]

I had a nightmare last night.  I’ve been having them often lately.  They bleed over into my day, and I strive to untangle myself from their emotional pull throughout the morning and  often into the afternoon hours.  I don’t remember the details usually, but the emotional stress and tension drags at me.  They are froth […]

There’s a commercial on TV where an older woman says “they say a person gets to an age where they don’t care (about their appearance) anymore.”  She tosses her head and says, “I wonder what age that is…” She is right, a person can get so bogged down in doing what is expected of them, […]

I tried controlling my eating habits for a long time.  I finally just stopped being intentional about it and simply tried to not overindulge.  And then several months ago, I succumbed to the habit of emotional eating due to some circumstances in my life.  So I gained over 20 pounds, and became physically weak and […]

It is so easy to get caught up in a heated argument and say things you wished weren’t said later.  I have a good desire of taking the higher road in a conversation, monitoring my responses to fit my intentions, and show a loving heart in spite of what the other person says.  It doesn’t […]

I suppose it should be flattering to be sought after and boundaries drawn for my attention if it were not for two cats doing the rivalry. My black cat was wild as a kitten, and had a certain amount of psychological damage in his young life.  His mother was run over by a car, leaving […]

I have had a lifetime of struggling with food.  At times it seemed like food was my enemy.  I either consumed it with pleasure and abandonment, or I tried to control my need for it.  By this I mean my desire to use it for coping with stress, treating myself as some form of reward, […]

I’m redoing an old cabinet unit, upper and lower, into a buffet.  It is sorta beat up, but was custom made out of real wood.  I like that.  So much of today’s furniture and cabinetry is made of recycled wood that resembles sawdust held together with glue, so the idea of creating a shabby-chic piece […]

My husband recently asked me if I missed my ex-husband who had died several years earlier.  I said I probably would have if the man had treated me like he did when we first married, but that he had been so angry with me over perceived injustices that he had been resentful and at time […]

If I don’t keep a careful watch on myself, my days can seem dull and directionless.  The tediousness of waking up each morning and doing the same things I did yesterday, but all over again with little twists of change can put me in mind of Ecclesiastes.  “What has been will be again, what has […]

How does a person convey what they want in such a way that the best results are achieved, and everyone is at peace with one another?  This is a continuing problem for me as a project manager for  remodeling projects.  I have the vision of what the finished job needs to look like.  Several components […]

My life is boring.  All I do is make myself get up and go to work.  This takes some doing as my bed is comfortable, and my body doesn’t want to move.  But the necessity of visiting the bathroom gives me the urgency to stumble in that direction. Ahhh…my stomach propels me to the kitchen.  […]