Why do nice guys get such a bad rap? I used to feel sorry for my self-proclaimed nice guy friends who would bemoan their poor treatment from women who “always” went for the “bad boy.” These nice guys would get ditched for a guy who apparently wasn’t quite so nice. Boo hoo. A few years… [Read more…]
February 25, 2012
According to Oxford’s American Dictionary, health is a state of being free from illness or injury. I’m looking for a lot more than just health, even more than just good health. I want wellness. I want to feel like I’m in a state of being the best I can possibly be. I want to believe… [Read more…]
February 11, 2012
I doubt that I would ever have become a writer if I hadn’t first been a reader. From an early age, I learned to escape into the written word, living in my imagination, taking the ride offered by someone else’s pen. How limited and dull my life would be if I didn’t have a love… [Read more…]
December 29, 2011
There’s nothing like the world ending to bring about change. My world ended already – so much changed in my life this past year that it’s almost unrecognizable. I’m in a new world now, so it stands to reason that the old world is gone. Looking back to January, I sense that I’ve shed an… [Read more…]
December 18, 2011
Two months ago I walked 26.2 miles. In eight hours. Following popular advice, I took the next week off but then the week after that, and another, until I found myself restless and without a goal. Every morning I would tell myself that today I’d get back into “it.” Like having post-partum blues, everything I’d… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
You could be the fortunate man of my dreams. Really. Let me explain. Maybe I’m too trusting; perhaps I’m what some would call naïve. If a man acts a certain way, tells me certain things and in general, leads me to believe that he’s genuinely taken with me, I believe him. I’m also embarrassed to… [Read more…]
November 27, 2011
I drink a little poison every day. Sometimes I’ll have a sip first thing in the morning, even when I’ve sworn off the stuff. I admit I’m a closet drinker; I have it down to a science – nobody can tell when I imbibe. If it doesn’t hurt anybody else, is there a problem? Except… [Read more…]
November 19, 2011
My cell phone holds twenty voice mail messages before it’s full. I have sixteen saved messages – sweet, romantic, funny … I like to listen to them from time to time. Every time I receive new voice mail, I get a warning: “Your mailbox is almost full. You may want to delete saved messages so… [Read more…]
November 11, 2011
The hare should have won the race. After all, he had everything going for him: initiative, speed, good intentions. He had the kind of excitement that seizes all of us when we start out fresh, setting goals or writing New Year’s resolutions. Everything is easy at first. It’s after the excitement wears off and a… [Read more…]
March 28, 2012
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