May 26 2006
It’s a good day and a needed one after this week. On Monday I got a full dose of Myer’s Cocktail and it floored me. Or, perhaps the fun and sun at Colonial Williamsburg, the stress of almost losing my step-mother, and the cocktail made for a bomb of a week. Phew! It’s a little […]
May 23 2006
Even my dreams last night were prayers. We lost Kathy, Laurel’s mom, on my birthday. I’ll be damned if I’m going to lose my step-mother on my birthday, too. Even so, I am torn. So, I pray for the best outcome … an outcome I can trust will be the right path for all of […]
May 10 2006
I haven’t seen the movie United 93 and I won’t. I defy terrorists and defeat terrorism every time I set foot on a plane. I think about flying now and a cold, strangling fear crawls up my spine. It wasn’t always this way. I loved flying; I loved feeling the plane take off from the […]
May 01 2006
Thanks, Rick, for all these years (wow, what now, 14 or 15?) of friendship, for your encouragement to write, for all the videos of X Files you taped and sent, for the care packages of coffee, cocoa, and favorite books. I could go on. And on. Thanks for adopting me, for calling me sister. For […]
Apr 26 2006
Wow. I have to copy these passages here. They’re from The Four Agreements, a book by Miguel Ruiz: The Second Agreement Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and […]