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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,700 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get... Continue Reading →
Excitement and disappointment. Lately, these two feelings have been flowing through my blood stream, intertwining with each other and coming back to settle in my heart and brain. Something inside me definitely changed when I turned forty. A switch went off, and suddenly, everything and everyone came into focus. As perceptive of people as I... Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving is here and I would be remiss if I did not share my list of turkey day thank yous: Clarity. I am thankful that the fog has cleared and I am able to see people for who they are, and that includes me. Self-control. I am thankful that I am changing the way I... Continue Reading →
It happened. I have lived in the city for three years now and I finally got busted. The parking meter gods at long last found me and took me down. In a really big way. From day one of living here, I have been pretty diligent about paying for parking. I always pay the maximum... Continue Reading →
There’s drinking and driving. There’s texting and driving. There’s turning around to yell at your kid driving. There’s reaching under your seat where your phone fell and driving. I had the pleasure recently of puking and driving. It was this past summer. I was headed to Michigan for the weekend. I was hung over and... Continue Reading →
People avoid change at all costs. It’s uncomfortable, it brings anxiety and the fear of the unknown drives people to run from it. We are horribly set in our ways. We have routines that we follow every day to keep our minds in order. From making our morning coffee to taking the same route home... Continue Reading →
There are two types of people in the world. Dog people and cat people. There are plenty of folks like myself, who will say they are both but we usually lean one way or the other when it comes to the actual ownership of an animal. I will always lean cat. I could get into... Continue Reading →
I am turning forty in two weeks and simply cannot let the topic of my impending aging go by without a little bitching. I’ve got mixed emotions about it. Age is just a number, right? That’s the popular saying by people who are getting older and want to make themselves feel better. It’s not how... Continue Reading →
You know you do it. We ALL do it. We use the word “like” in our vocabulary every single day. The traffic was like, horrible. I was like, so late for work today. I’m like, so tired. The word itself can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection and... Continue Reading →
Here we go again. Another week of travel, another week of crazies. I’m sort of starting to see why the airline people are so crabby. This time, I was headed to Florida. Now, just a disclaimer for you; I can’t stand Florida. I’m sorry if I offend any Floridians, but I’m officially throwing the whole... Continue Reading →
An Honest Swallow 