Everyone has an opinion. Actually. That’s not necessarily true. Look at those so-called undecided voters. I actually don’t believe those existed or exist. I think they were just trying to get on television. It’s that 15 minutes of fame thing. Although now people can get three minutes of […]
I couldn’t sleep the other night. It has been happening to me with some increasing frequency. But instead of being a couch zombie or runinator – two bad extremes- I have looked to do things. Get some tedious things done. I mean really tedious. What did I do […]
Nostalgia. A powerful emotion. Some might argue it’s not an emotion. I certainly don’t care. Nostalgia. I’ve been feeling it a lot lately. It courses through my veins and into my the right and left side of my brain. I looked at some old photographs on my dresser […]
I used to watch CNN all the time in the morning. It would help me understand what’s going to happen in the world that day. But then I stopped watching the news. Just stopped. I did like watching the newscaster Brooke Baldwin on CNN on New Year’s eve. […]
For the past year, I have not really taken a day off. I haven’t taken a vacation. Neither have millions upon millions of people. But we each reach a point where maybe we need a day off. For the past few months, people have been repeatedly telling me […]
Let’s face it. Life would be wonderful and less stressful if there were less toxic people in the world. Or perhaps better yet, less toxic people in one’s life. And, sadly it is not like toxic people beep an alarm to let you know. Sometimes some people may […]
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” When I became pregnant I knew that one of the values I would immediately try to pass onto my child was the love and appreciation of travel. In psychology, we measure […]
In New Yok, you see everything. You can experience almost everything. And, with enough money you can certainly buy pretty much anything. Thus, when walking the city streets of New York, you have to be prepared for just about everything and anything. Yup. The other morning it looked […]
Freedom. It’s a beautiful word. A most wondrous concept. An aspiration. Not only at the governmental level but in our own day-to-day lives. We live with fears that keep us bound. We live within constraints, that we have often set ourselves. While at the Brooklyn zoo -tiny but […]
Imagine this scenario. Someone is leaning over a toilet throwing up. One person pulls that person’s hair back and says it’ll be ok. Another person stands back perplexed trying to figure out what caused the stomach problem. While a third person goes back to look for the purse […]