Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
It’s amazing what the subconscious will dredge up when you least expect it. Whether dreams are a blender mix of the day’s events, your deepest fears, or actual prophecy, they’re worth listening to. I like to think of them as trying to tell me something, [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
There’s a reason why ethical pagans do not believe in doing love spells to get their man and why “good Christians” don’t pray to God that a certain someone will love them. It has to do with trying to control the destiny and will of [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
One of my favorite running jokes in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series was the absolute terror that Anya (Anyanka, the Vengeance Demon) had in regard to rabbits. Of course, creator Joss Whedon (Angel; Firefly; Serenity) is a god among writers and as a [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
I keep thinking about what Mark said about maps: that they show you where you are but not where you’re going. You never really know where you’re going until you’re already there.
I should have known when I started this quick trip of mine, the night [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
I awoke at exactly 5:55 a.m. It was the dream that woke me.
Why am I dreaming about him? I’ve let it go. I’ve let him go.
And yet, here he is in a dream.
I’m at someone else’s house. I don’t know whose.
The girls are with me. [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
They’re doing me a favor. They think. They don’t like being alone. They’re not comfortable being alone. To them, it’s the same thing as lonely. They don’t want me to be alone and therefore lonely, and so here comes the invitation.
“Do you have the girls [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
Some lessons, I just have to be tested on again and again to make sure I learned it the first 500 times. Easy lessons are worthless, it seems. And the hard ones that need reiterating really hurt, even when I think I’ve got it already. [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
I’m ready for a new man in my life, but something holds me back. I know…it’s me. The fox walks halfway into the woods and every next step after than is one coming out of the woods. But what exactly is it that keeps me [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
As much as I hate to admit it, during my second singledom, the absolute best thing for my man-woman relationships has been to build them slowly, sometimes agonizingly slowly. Some of these relationships never took root in a foundation of friendship, and so they fizzled—thankfully—before [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
My relationship with The Treat doesn’t fit any other model, and maybe that’s what makes it so special.
Since I asked him for his number last Fall and we had that first amazing Life-Death-and-the-Universe talk in December right after we both found ourselves divorced and starting [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
From over my shoulder, my co-worker is reading my computer screen as I check email. “My God!” she exclaims. “That’s the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen in my life!”
I shrug. Yeah, he is quite pretty. “So is this an Internet dating site?”
Er, no. It’s [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
“I’m absolutely serious,” I tell Jean. She knows I am, too. I’ve thrown out a wild and crazy idea, way outside the box, but it’s a fascinating premise that blends hypnotherapy, shaman- ism, and quantum physics.
The question?
“Can you work with the Higher Self in a [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
I should be used to it by now, but I’m not. I live in a military community where no one stays for many years. I learned a long time ago that if you get attached to every cool new co-worker or neighbor, you’ll just get your [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
“That’s classified,” my least favorite astrophysicist told me over crossed arms several years ago.
I reminded him, over crossed arms (mine), that I had the same clearances he did.
“Well, you don’t have a need to know. I just need you to sign off on what I’m [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
“How can I ever live a mundane life?”
Two years ago, I sat at Melissa’s kitchen table and sipped the hot chai tea her husband had made for me while our kids played Neopets computer games upstairs. She’d been called to walk a spiritual path yet [...]
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One of my most popular features in my previous blog was nicknamed “Five Things Lorna.
Once a week, I would post photos of five things that made my home or work space extra special to me and a short blurb explaining the connection.
This week, I’ll be restarting that [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
A friend of mine recently quit his private industry job. He was young but one of the best of his field, though I’m sure he never fully realized how much his clients appreciated him, mainly because he had the occasional retired General picking him apart. [...]
Continue reading about One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Treasure
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
“So what’s wrong with him?” I ask a female colleague who’s just suggested I have a fling, for lack of a better word for it, with a co-worker of hers.
“Nothing!” she swears to me. The man’s definitely in my age range, extremely attractive, smart, everything [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
My computer’s been in the shop all week. Hard drive crash. (Yep, did I mention how much I hate Mercury in retro- grade?) The guys worked about 12 hours to retrieve my data, and it’ll take me probably another 12 weeks to go through the [...]
Continue reading about Talk Dirty to Me, Baby: Quantum Physics Turns Me On
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
The past few days have been some of the craziest of my life…to date. Someone’s established a telepathic connection with me. I can hear him, feel him, but I’m not sure he can hear me. Only time will tell. It’s strange and odd and wonderful [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
My guides are at it again, reminding me of things I used to do but put aside. Like dining alone.
It’s not that I’ve been avoiding it. I just haven’t thought much about it or bothered to get out that often. Life’s been busy, you know? [...]
Continue reading about Table for One, Please: My Name Is LEGION”
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
Finally. He’s asleep. Our darling boy. On the floor under my main altar, the cool tile against his bare belly.
I was supposed to be working, supposed to be writing this novel, but there’s always something to interrupt, it seems. This time, it’s Grendel, our little [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
Earlier in the year, I’d filed for an extension to delay filing my Federal taxes for last year. The 15th of April had come during a time when I was too sick to stand, let alone think clearly on mathematical issues. The girls took care [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
I’m heartsick from the news: a colleague I have admired, respected, and adored for 15 years is battling brain cancer…and losing. He’s been on my mind for the past week, and I mentioned him in my blog only a couple of days ago. He and [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Burn.
Okay, taking a deep breath now and trying to figure out how to do it all. I remind myself that I just have to make it until Sunday and then everything will be better. Because August is going to be a super month when everything [...]
