Warning If you want to read an upbeat, let’s speak and think and feel only positive things so that’s what we attract kind of experience today, then you don’t want to read this blog post. But if you are in the midst of a dark night of the soul or if you’re just feeling a [...]
Weighing In (Rants & Raves)
Cranky. Cantankerous. Don’t you just love those words? I like the sound of crotchety too. I come from a long line of women who tend to get cranky and cantankerous as they age. I’m delighted to announce I’m there. Just call me Crankypants Carol. (Thank you, Sandi Amorim for crankypants.) Actually, I suspect my female [...]
I was born and raised in the Philadelphia area, and the coast of New Jersey played a pivotal role in my life. Some of my fondest memories from my childhood are of times spent at The Shore. There were shared summer vacations at the Joneses home, a short block from the beach in Avalon. That’s [...]
Categories Community, Weighing In (Rants & Raves)
Time is such a strange thing – maybe even an illusion according to some. I do know everyone these days is complaining they don’t have enough of it. I don’t remember my parents or grandparents having the same complaint. So what are we modern day folks so busy doing that we never have enough time? [...]
It’s amazing what you can discover just by pulling a couple of books off the Amazon virtual shelves and reading the table of contents. God, I love books! Here are 10 secrets I stumbled across this morning when I should have been downstairs feeding myself and the cats. I’m really glad I postponed breakfast. If [...]
We hear a lot of talk these days about transformation. But what is it? How does it happen? What comes after transformation? Everyone loves a good transformation, especially the outer kind – the kind you can touch and feel. The big reveal of a transformed living room, a transformed look, a transformed body. And then [...]
Right now, as you read this, American school officials are deciding which children to send home with food over the weekend, because there will be no food in their homes. In the richest country in the world, the United States of America, children are going hungry. This is criminal, revolting, reprehensible – I can’t think of [...]
Categories Community, Weighing In (Rants & Raves)
Phew! I’m back. But I’m still shaking off the effects of that photo/video shoot. What can I say? Reality can be a bitch sometimes. Well, actually more like a bitch slap. Wake-up calls – at least the kind of wake-up call where you lose yourself – are very unpleasant, but they are necessary if you’re [...]
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