To Ignore or Not Ignore, that is the question

The Prize

You know when you do things that you don’t understand why you do them?  But you have to?  Or when you begin to behave in an addictive manner…ie.  smoking, eating, drinking, working, etc.  to stop feeling something?  Sometimes you can’t even identify the feelings, but you know they are there, simmering below the surface?  Or [...]

I'm Sorry

I’m sorry.  I’m so sorry for…. I’m sorry that I….

Apologizing is powerful.  Apologizing instantly raises the energy of the interaction, so long as it’s sincere and not meant to manipulate.  ’I’m sorry’ is something I pretty much use every day all throughout the day.  There is always an instance where I was insensitive, there is [...]

Post Vacation

Wow, whatta miserable bitch i was before i went on vacation.  Quite literally, the day before we left I was on the edge of my seat, hunched over with stomach flu cramps and surfing the web frantically for any information about the tsunami evacuation in Hawaii.  Twitter is really the fastest place for second to [...]

Ding Ding. Round One.

Hey now now.
I’m all gimped up and sore wristy, because Max is so freakin heavy and strong now that I keep wrenching it when I pick him up. So these days, me and my muscley baby have been having SHOW DOWNS. I’ve started disciplining. Seriously. He’s 14 months old tomorrow and [...]

What love feels like

My daughter Lula has this ritual at bedtime.

Just as we are about to make the escape from her room and close that door behind us, she calls out, “Can you stay with me for just one minute?” and anyone with a brain knows what that means, and when we agree because we have accepted that [...]