January 2016

I don’t know if this happens to all people pleasers; but, eventually some of us blow.  I’m currently working through another layer…peeling the skin off the pungent onion.  When being raised up as a people pleaser, I believe what you really learn is to be a door mat.   During my continuous mental cleansing  and Read more

When you and your buddy’s illegally camp out on federal land….depriving other Americans of using the federal land, you break the law, you deprive other Americans of their illusion of safety and peace of mind, you brag about your Arsenal and your machismo, you taunt with your radical verbiage, run from the Feds and then Read more

I’ve been to a handful of hockey games so I haven’t developed a passion for the sport but 10 minutes into the 1st period of the Missouri Mavericks game last night, I was hooked.    It’s loud, it’s fast…full body slams (bodychecking) bouncing and colliding with the opponent is permitted and quite frankly encouraged by Read more

We took several family vacations when the kids were young…a couple of times to Florida…in 96 we did your typical Orlando and all of the amusement park hype, stayed on Daytona Beach, went to Kennedy Space Center….in 99 we went to Orlando again *crushes can on forehead* and then went south to Miami and Key Read more

8 years of January blog statistics shows that I apparently find myself totally uninspired with not a creative bone in my body.  I don’t write, I don’t do projects, I Just veg and regurgitate!  …..and February….well, I lived in Iowa…February was always my most depressing month.  I think because Iowa winter just never ends or Read more

I finished one of the best books I’ve read in awhile the night before I was gotten by the cold,sneeze and cough. So while in the grips of the cold, I could find nothing to hold my attention on IBooks or Kindle so I went to Amazon Videos.  I clicked on an Amazon Studios series…. Transparent…. Read more

Driving this morning, where I do my 2nd best thinking…shower being 1st, I thought I had a grip on my current mental turmoil….I probably came across as angry yesterday and that would be totally accurate.  Angry and sad because I felt disrespected.  This morning I thought, ah, yes, finally another layer of  skin has been Read more

It happens….when you decide to live a peaceful life…. Removing negativity and living with an appreciation of peace and joy and love, you can set yourself up for a surge of angst and hatefulness.  When we feel that negativity is continuously pushing into the door until it is wide enough to get a shot of Read more

My dad taught me how to play checkers and I remember the devastating game, candy land, because I seldom won.  I jigsawed with puzzles but tired quickly of them because I really didn’t like the pictures they were going to be.  Our trips to Grandma Greens house in Nichols, Iowa always included an evening of Read more