The sunlight shifted a bit last week, hinting at spring. It’s still February and there is a lot of snow yet to come, but maybe we have seen the last of below zero temperatures for this winter. I first noticed the light-shift in July as a harbinger of autumn many years ago and find the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Musings/Rantings
Time Seems to Fly When Using This Blanket
Who doesn’t want better sleep? And can this blanket help you get it? I was intrigued by photos of people nestled under their weighted blankets and heard about how it improved their sleep quality. My two oldest kids raved about the benefits so I ordered one. There is an actual way to calculate what weight… Continue Reading
Better Late Than Never…Intentions of Solstice 2019
Finally Getting Caught Up I knew I was late getting to this and then I realized I hadn’t done it AT ALL last year. What the…? I have been thinking about these for almost a month now and it’s time to commit them to writing. Scary, because then they become “not just imagined”. Writing I… Continue Reading
Learning Is Rarely A Linear Path
So I started out with Moosepat knowing only that I had something to offer and perhaps I could also provide myself with a bit of income. I did not know how steep the learning curve would be, but why not go for it? When I look back eight years I remember how it felt to… Continue Reading
OMG I Escaped…So Why Do I Feel So Awful?
When the only way around is through, this is how I managed. You can, too. I escaped; I should be happy…and I am. I am also extremely…nay…painfully uncomfortable, and that isn’t something I saw coming. For the second time in my adult life an unfamiliar yet reassuring sensation has washed through me and I think this… Continue Reading
It’s So Nice To Be Missed
Whenever I go out of town (or even when I work a couple of 12 hour shifts in a row) this is what happens. And some say cats are too aloof. Not my guy; I am missed. So sweet. Continue Reading
Cardio Makes Me Cry
But not for the usual reasons I desperately needed to get to the gym. I had worked a bunch, gone on a fun weekend trip with my kids and returned in the wee hours of the morning with a full agenda to do before the work week began. No big deal; I had done this… Continue Reading
This Time It’s For Good; When A Friendship Ends
In high school I had a friend who had the same name as me. I was new to the school and she invited me to eat lunch with her and so began a friendship grounded in being military brats, music, basketball, bad poetry and laughing ourselves silly. It even survived a move to the opposite… Continue Reading
Our Lady
Nope, not Catholic. Or French. But I have always loved Notre Dame Cathedral for the history and the architecture and the skill and the art of her builders. I imagine the thoughts and hopes and prayers and dreams of the workers infused into the raw materials. What were they thinking as they crafted something most… Continue Reading
NOOOOOOO……..!
The anticipation was building and I woke up this morning expecting that by nightfall I would be holding a copy of my book In. My. Hands. It’s been such a long road. Morning chores done, Pippin settling down for his first nap of the day and on to my emails. *GASP*. NOOOOOOO….! To quote Monty… Continue Reading
