During this pandemic experience I have spent quite a bit of time alone… with my cat. My husband, save 2 weeks in March 2020, has been working on-site at his job through it all. His industry, appliances and electronics, is one area of the economy that has been in a skyrocket for the last year…

Most of us, whether we like to admit it or not, have an affinity for celebrity. We love the idea that we know someone, or know someone who knows someone. We like to be able to say that we went to school with the brother of, the former school teacher of, know the next door…

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have been working my way through The Artist’s Way lately. I am taking my time, repeating weeks if I need to so the 12-week process may take me all of 2021 but who cares? I mean, really, who cares?? I am in week 4, which among other…

At the beginning of the pandemic and the stay at home, shelter in place order(s) many who had the luxury of working from home were hilarious in our hubris. We were saying things like, I am going learn a foreign language (even though Facebook posts show clearly we haven’t yet mastered our first one), we…

I have been taking my third go-round with The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron lately. It’s a 12-week discovery of sorts on unblocking your inner creative. I have done this process before and I am not sure if I ever finished it previously. It doesn’t really matter. I am finishing it this time although I…

The new year is here and just like we said, nothing magical happened when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve as we drifted into January 1, 2021. But you know what? Even though I wrote it and I said it to many people, I was still somehow let down a little. I was…