I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
Fifteen years ago I walked over 100 blocks in the New York summer sweltering heat to find the right dog for me. I did that four weekends in a row. Weekend after weekend I went yo the upper East Side animal shelter loving all the figs I saw […]
There’s no way to escape the truth Even when we lie to ourselves Our truths linger in the precipice Our lies bleed onto our conscious The truth’s hangover is deep Waves of guilt pushing out the venom Crying only brings more pain Nose to the bowl […]
Poor little girl purple. She tried to be a good girl. She laughed and smiled and brought good humor to everything she did. Or at least she tried. There were always going to be those that didn’t have such a disposition and they would, in turn, try […]
There are many people that like me. That’s great I am happy and comforted by that. Even many animals take to me. This weekend, about three dogs feel in love with me within seconds. Of course, they were in a dog shelter and really wanted a […]
He knew that he was an old soul. His body ached despite his youth. He tried to find love and heart everywhere he went. Yet, at times there was no such love back from the world. But he would continue to persist in his quest. That […]
When I was a young girl, I had a lot of hair issues. I had very curly hair. Extremely curly hair. Still do. However, my family was, for the most part, a straight hair one. My mother had no idea how to tame my curls. She […]
My mother believed deeply and ferociously in the power of dreams. She completely felt that dreams carried much meaning and that they were often prophetic. She must have had over 100 dream dictionaries while I was growing up. She slept with one on her nightstand. I would often […]
I have a love-hate relationship with spellcheck. As a kid, I used to be a story-teller. I was a champion that liked narrating short stories. Some would say I am still a story teller. Even as part of my management style, I use stories to drive home […]
Sometimes we hold great anticipation for events and things that we forget to actually appreciate the actual event. I know many women who noted that they had planned and planned endlessly for their wedding day and then it came and went in a blink of an eye. I […]
I like to change up my hairstyle and hair color all the time. Well, not exactly all the time. I did the Japanese straightening to my hair over eight years ago and then I kept doing it for about eight years straight. Then, I stopped straightening […]
