Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

“The Truth is …”

I actually wrote this yesterday, when I was having a "bad day" with a migraine headache. Today I'm better, just so you know! Still, I'm guessing there are others who can identify with this feeling, and so I will publish this post, though it sounds more depressing than I feel today! Sometimes it helps to

“The Truth is …”2012-10-20T14:22:17-04:00

“If a Job Needs Doing”

Prompt: 15 minutes: "If a job needs doing". GO! "If a Job Needs Doing" If a job needs doing, I write it down on a list to either do myself when I'm feeling up to it, or to remember to delegate to my husband or Lisa those things I can. Iron the clothes, change the

“If a Job Needs Doing”2012-10-20T14:24:11-04:00

“Merit Badges”

I recently wrote an essay for a competition that I did not win, and so I will not get to go to Oakland, California to meet Anne Lamott and Kelly Corrigan next month after all. Nor will I receive a call from a senior editor at Random House/Ballantine. Or from the Executive Editor at O

“Merit Badges”2012-03-30T04:10:05-04:00

Holiday Habits – Repeating the Sounding Joy?

Well, the tree is up, prelit (LOVE it!), partially decorated, awaiting the arrival of my mother tomorrow and my daughters Saturday to complete the hanging of the traditional ornaments. I'm ready to let go of stuff, like so many of us baby boomers seem to be saying these days. Yet I still collect Christmas tree

Holiday Habits – Repeating the Sounding Joy?2012-01-04T17:30:03-05:00