Subarus – and avoiding distress.
I just bought a brand new Subaru and part of me feels more at home than it has for a while. When I got married 4 years ago, I quickly purchased a bigger non-Subaru SUV because I think I felt like I needed to spread my wings and be someone ‘new’? After all, I […]
“A fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Jon J. Muth tells the story of “two traveling monks who reached a town where there was a young woman waiting to step out of her sedan chair [a portable covered chair that is designed to hold one person and is carried on poles by two people]. The rains had made deep puddles and she […]
The Second Arrow.
I wrote part of this post last week in small step snippets and over multiple hours with the help of the dictation tool on my computer because for several days of said last week I was more sick than I can ever remember being in my life. Being sick is not something that happens often […]
Mr. Steele and the magic combination.
The principal that hired me for my first teaching job was named Mr. Steele. He was a tough guy with a huge heart and a huge temper to match. He was passionate about the program he started in his school for kids that were struggling and boy, did he want them to succeed. I […]
Being who you’ve always wanted to be.
(artwork by Caytie Frampton – @caytiediddesigns) My sister Caytie is an artist. She always has been. She is super talented and proficient in drawing, and sketching, and hand-lettering, and doodling, – and painting. Or, so I thought. Two months ago she sent me a text. “I’ve been doing some painting……” What? I thought she […]
Decluttering your thoughts – and Ina Garten.
Several years ago when Ina Garten was in her black pants and denim shirt Barefoot Contessa heyday, my sister Marilee offered me four of Ina’s cookbooks. She was “getting rid of some stuff”, as she was prone to do, and thought of me. I happily took them and added them to my growing collection of […]
Fueled by Identity.
The author Brad Stulberg recently wrote that “The Arrival Fallacy was first coined by the behavioral scientist Tal Ben-Shahar. It describes the commonly held illusion that once we make it, once we attain our goal or reach our destination, whatever it may be, we will achieve lasting happiness and fulfillment. But this simply is not true. We […]
Sally’s Favorites – and reinvention.
I love to eat great food. Love it. And because of this, people in my life would often ask me during my single years for recommendations on where to go out to eat. They also asked about movies and TV shows and donuts and a few other things. Not because I have particularly great style […]
The story of Darren and “Dan”.
When Darren was growing up as the youngest of 4 fairly competitive siblings, he decided to pour a lot of his effort and teenage energy into practicing racquet sports. If a sport used a racquet, he would play, and he particularly loved tennis and racquetball. Through some connections of his dad’s he gained access […]
57 degrees and Sunshine.
I live west of the Wasatch Mountains (a range on the western border of the Rockies) in a ski resort-filled area of the Western United States. We usually see an average of 4.0 months of ‘snow’ – typically from November 12 through March 12 – and in those 4 months about half the days are […]
