Facebook Addiction

Rule number three of the December writing challenge was no interaction on any social media –– Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc until the blog was done.  The first few days felt like being on a diet. All I wanted to do was check my news feed and scroll through...

Grown Up Christmas List

Gloria Steinem’s “The Top Ten Things I Want For Christmas” speech from a BETTY’s holiday show, recently appeared on Huffington Post. Much like the David Letterman Show, it started at her number ten wish and worked its way to the number one. When...

Finding Joy in the Season

Last year we didn’t put up any Christmas decorations. The general mood of the season was too much for me. The music too cheery. The lights too bright. The shopping too busy. And though I participated in a few Christmas activities,...

Seven days and counting . . .

Today is the seventh day of my December blogging challenge. Though I should be celebrating a small victory, I’m worried about what lies ahead. The next twenty-four days tend to be the busiest of the entire year. How do I complete everything on my to do list, write a...

Ode to Sunday Morning 

Dogs bark in unison. Body like lead. Room flooded with light. Eyes glued shut. I’m not quite sure this qualifies as a poem, but that’s what I’m calling it. The  words capture the sentiment of how I felt this morning.  The blog is shorter...

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