Bliss, it is not

I am exhausted.  I'm not sleeping well and the eyestrain from seeing clients via a telehealth platform is painful.  I have more headache...

Every little thing bothers me.  I think I am also bothering other people, or I'm somehow also concerned with how others see me.  I thi...

Things I'm noticing: I'm eating a little better/more predictability...  therefore, I feel a little better. I'm drinking more ...

Is there such a thing as too much connection?  I think we need more space or we're going to end up divorced by the end of summer.  We ir...

I've been doing a lot of reading about coping with COVID-19 and one of the ideas that keeps showing up is journaling or writing about th...

As per my usual behavior as of late, when life gets rough I just hide and don't share anything.  It's weird because that's so no...

We need to eat more fish.  I like fish, I miss eating it, it's good for your health, it's good for certain medical conditions.  I of...

Meal plans are normal.  I really need some kind of normal right now.  Even the month isn't normal - January is a bookkeepers nightmare. ...

I call my mom a couple times a day.  I don't know how else to be there for her when we live about 20 miles away and I have to work about...

This last six days have been fucking surreal.  Did I say that already?  I'm talking to my mom tonight and realize we're talking abou...

My dad fell on the ice.  We all fall on the ice sometimes, unless you live in a tropical climate and never leave - to which I say, aren'...

I would love to be able to journal every day of the year, or write in a beautiful composition notebook (my tastes are simple) every week.  W...

We normally spend Thanksgiving with Rob's family, but this year no one was having a big dinner so we're spending it at home with a t...

I'm on a bunch of food mailing lists - Kraft, Allrecipes, Betty Crocker, etc. - and in the last week they've all sent emails focusin...

Oh, my gosh!  I've done such a poor job of coming up with a meal plan and buying for it.  I'm spending a fortune on food these days ...

This was one of those FB posts that you're supposed to share so you save it to your page.  I always look them up on the internet and ...

We're back to hamburgers, slop, and pasta.  Come to think of it, when did we stop? Cheeseburgers, Red Robin french fries (frozen fro...

What do all those things have in common?  They're all in my head right now.  Oh, and add pain, worry, concern, fear, and a strange sense...

To me, it's a four letter word.  I don't want to feel that way about it, I just do.  It appears that I will have to treat it the sam...

Being treated poorly by your teen seems universal, but it can get old really quick.  I'm also curious, why do we accept poor treatment f...

I'm desperate to put dinner on the table for a whole week, but I seem to take the easy route and pick something up once or twice a week....

It's been crazy busy here - community events, back to school prep (which most people get done in a day or two of shopping - but I can dr...

Farmers markets offer a great opportunity to increase the amount of veggies in our diet.  Unfortunately you can't see that in this weeks...

Matt is supposed to be done with the Navy next year so I've posted a best guess countdown.  It may or may not be accurate, but it will c...

We went to the farmers market today.  We normally go to the one by our house on Sunday, but we have one of Robs work events to attend tomorr...

Since when are we as parents expected to bribe our kids to turn in homework, to attend classes, to give a rats ass about school?   Oh, cr...

It just occurred to me that this is coming... I have maybe three whole months before I see this again, and I'm not looking forwar...

There's nothing like a bunch of post-it notes in my drawer, on my desk, in pads, stuck to my computer screen, at the bottom of my purse,...

I'm trying to get back into the groove of cooking, especially since school will start in about three weeks and my planning and organizat...

That was my focus today, or rather being able to notice judgment and let it go without putting any of myself into it.  It was a little about...

I'm considering allergy testing.   This is a big deal for me because...   needles!  I hate needles, but every year I fight to find jus...

"I can just quit my job and see clients!" ... You see, I think naughty thoughts when I don't get enough rest/play/family c...

It's a bitch.  I mean really, who wants to be awake at four in the morning after going to bed nearly seven hours earlier?  Nobody, that...

When there are things to worry about, concerns that overwhelm the soul, that is the time to look to gratitude.  It would be so easy to make ...