The day after Labor Day, my hubby and I took some friends to the Point Defiance Park. We decided to go visit the rose garden. And they have dahlias there. And fuchsias. And we spent a couple of hours walking around among all of these amazing blooms. I got to smell a bunch of roses. …
I've never had a good relationship with my body. I haven't had an eating disorder. I wasn't a child beauty pageant contestant. I didn't participate in any sort of extracurricular activity that you would think could lead to issues with my body. Rather, I was raised in a very conservative Christian home. We talked about…
I love tea. It all started with the peppermint tea my mom gave me as a baby to calm my tummy. I stuck mainly to herbal tea until I was through college. I made it through college without coffee! That's because caffeine was a thing that we just didn't do. It was one of those…
I was listening to a great book last week. I listened to it first last year. It's just one of those books that deserve another listen and several more read-throughs, which is why I purchased a used copy. It's called Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero. Now, before you turn up your nose at it…
This hasn't been an easy summer. I feel raw emotionally. I've lost three uncles in the last two months. I've celebrated the anniversaries of the deaths of three grandparents. I've been places where these people should have been, where they were loved, where they were expected--places where they shone. And I've heard about people getting…
Picture this: You're on holiday (I think it's much more fun saying holiday than vacation) in Scotland and you've always wanted to visit Loch Ness. Maybe you'll catch a glimpse of Nessie. So you take a lake cruise. And when you're in the middle of the cruise--the middle of the loch--you fall overboard. The water…
There was a Star Wars marathon on TV Memorial Day Weekend—the original ones (Episodes IV-VI). Typically, my Memorial Day Weekend TV watching consists of war movies or John Wayne movies or John Wayne war movies. I needed a change this year. So, I picked fictional space battles instead of non-fiction earth battles. Though “The Longest…
Last week wasn't an easy week. In my last post, I opened up about some of my struggles with depression. And to top all of that off, Sunday the 10th would have been my grandma's 82nd birthday. Thursday the 14th was the day that she passed in 2007. I won't pretend that I'm the only…
In which I talk about my fight with depression since childhood.
Now before you start the admissions process to that cushy place for people who say they hear voices, I'm talking about the different types of thoughts that go through my head. You know, you have them, too. There's the voice that makes the snarky comments to your boss that you don't say aloud because that…