The eve
It’s a wrap – we’re putting 2019 to bed tonight – tomorrow will be the first day of a brand new year, a day of resolutions and promises. It will also be Wednesday, the middle of the week and half way to the weekend. Tomorrow will be special and ordinary in the same moment, the world will […]
Coughs, Candles and the Christmas Cold
The first gift of Christmas arrived a couple of days ago. Sometime between midnight and four a.m. a cold germ snuck up the stairs and tackled me while I slept. I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus and my voice sounds like a rusty gravel truck. Merry Christmas! I’m feeling sorry for myself […]
A Christmas Lightbulb Moment
I’ve been dragging my heels and hanging onto November with my fingernails – doing everything in my power not to face December, but here it is. November gave me the slip on Friday and on Saturday my family pushed me into the festive season like a kid tossed into the deep end of the pool […]
Giving Thanks
So it’s thanksgiving and I’ve got a hundred things to be thankful for, I’m making a conscious effort to count them and yet… there is a black curtain hanging in front of gratitude this year – a barrier separating me from all the blessings in my life I know I don’t have a monopoly on […]