I knocked on three doors and three kings stuck their heads out One was a kind gentle soul who wished for world peace Another was a bullfighter with a bodyguard The last was a race care driver with no brakes I wondered who was truly righteous […]
Sometimes we picture the past in a way that it didn’t exist. We romanticize some past points in ways that make us nostalgic for things that never existed or happened. There is even a book by Stephanie Coontz called “The Way We Never Were” that dissects decades of our […]
I was just listening to Bruno Mars’ If I Knew. I don’t know how popular the song is overall, but I like it as one of his sings that I hear less often. In it, he sings “Oh, oh I, I was a city boy Riding to danger’s […]
It is a sad fact of my life that often when I travel some tragedy occurs. Actually, it is not a sad part of my life. Its a sad part of the collective pain we all experience. With social media and 24 hour news cycles we are […]
I should know better And indeed, I do But yet, I don’t know better And, I know I should I should know better But I do the opposite Fully aware I’m not doing better It’s the same old story Time should know better But it […]
Life is coming at us fast. Super fast. I manage to complete one task and three more come onto my to-do list. We have one hurricane make landfall followed by two more within weeks of one another. I have to monitor congressional funding cliffs and healthcare bills. I’m […]
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 […]
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 […]
Back when I lived in Washington, DC (many moons ago), I used to go yard sailing. I meandered most weekends through numerous neighborhoods getting a feel of new spaces. I was excited to see these beautiful homes and the so-called junk they were getting rid of. […]
A long, long time ago I came to understand that silence is ok. There was a time when things seemed awkward if two or more people sat in silence. The mind would race to find small talk topics and fingers would fidget. Silence would feel like […]
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