“Covid changed the world”. I have heard that many times over. I was talking with a friend I met in Walmart the other day and she said the same thing. “Everyone is so mean and full of hate.” She’s right. It seems that people tend to look for reasons to hate before giving love and…
Category: Lifestyle
Time – Where Have You Gone?
I feel that I am obsessed with the concept of time this year. Scientifically, it is measured with a watch, and separated into labeled sections such as hours or days. But, it feels relatively different to each person and situation without a timepiece. Time lost can never be replaced. You may be able to repeat…
Give Your Kids Cameras! Preserve Those Memories
What kid doesn’t ask for a camera at an early age? Or, I guess these days, they just pilfer a parent’s phone to sneak a photo opportunity. The point is that kids love taking pictures. Give them cameras! Back when I was younger it was a lot more expensive to take pictures. There were no…
Is It Love (Or a Trauma Bond)?
Let’s talk about a trauma bond. It’s a little off the main road of my recent posts, but anyone who has followed me for any length of time knows that I can veer off the beaten path at any given moment. These posts are usually about what’s most prevalent in my life when I feel…
GET OUT OF HERE 2023! Let’s Welcome 2024
Well, I can only hope 2024 is better than 2023 was. I’m not the only one who said this year pretty much sucked. While looking through the highlights of each month, it was hard to find anything positive, but there sure were a lot of negatives. In 2023, I experienced the deaths of more than…
Merry Muddy Christmas From Wisconsin
It’s Christmas Day in Wisconsin. This should bring visions of snow and ice on the ground, cold temperatures of nearly 20 degrees, winds blowing through bare branches of trees, and gloomy, gray days. Well, we have the gloomy, gray day but that’s the only thing that matches the typical vision. The ground today is muddy…
An Instrument Of Peace
“Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.” Thus starts the peace prayer of St. Francis. It’s a simple prayer but, how it is needed in the world in which we currently live. You don’t have to be a praying person to benefit from the prayer for peace. Reading it and living it is enough….
What Does “Support System” Mean?
As I was perusing Facebook the other day, I saw a meme that seemed particularly meaningful. It said, “Your support system should never gossip about you.” I wonder how many people realize what this means. “Support system” means those people who you count on to be there when you need someone to understand you. They…
Check Your Sense of Humor
No, I haven’t changed. I’m just speaking up. I’ve never found humor in making fun of other people, no matter how innocent it seems. I can’t laugh at someone else’s embarrassment. Because, at one time, that was me. A simple misunderstanding and people laugh. Or, a cruel joke by someone who thought it was funny…
2023 Is The Year I Blinked
Usually, I don’t do a review of a year until December. But I just reviewed 2023 because it feels like I blinked, and it’s over. I looked over my daily log, and things that happened just a month or so feel like they were from last year. So much has happened in such a short…