Words. Words are powerful. Words are imaginary and yet…wherever they are, there you are. I watch my son become indoctrinated by our language and I mourn for the self that disappears each day, the self beyond words that is so difficult to grasp as an adult. I know verbal language helps us [...]

The one word meme. You can only type one word. No explanations.
Yourself: Dedicated
Your partner: Responsible
Your hair: Long
Your Mother: Tempermental
Your Father: Dependable
Your Favorite Item: Earrings
Your dream last night: Confused
Your Favorite Drink: Water
Your Dream Car: Paid-off
Your Dream Home: Comfortable
The Room You Are In: Study
Your Ex: Who?
Your fear: Time
Where you Want to be in Ten Years? Content
Who you [...]

Glurk. What a long week. I am looking forward to my week-END. Ah, but it’s not to be too relaxing & there is till so much to do. As the Renovating Old Houses book says [paraphrased cos I'm too tired to get up and find it] ‘Focus on the immediate goal. [...]

Today was pretty low key. Lucas has been taking his naps at an earlier hour than usual, which has discombobulated my day. Now I think it’s later earlier. Does that make sense? It means that our afternoons are longer. They stretch before us in a sometimes imposing manner.
Lately Wade has [...]

Black tea buoys me
It lifts me through my day
It makes me feel like a hummingbird
Sucking sweet nectar from a bright red flower
Alive and swimming on the rich crest of life.
When my husband makes me a cup of his special brew
And hands it to me,
It’s like he has handed me a rare and prized gift that
I [...]