Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I’ve just hired someone to tell me what to do. Oops, no, that would be a spouse. Let me clarify. I’ve just hired a coach.
I’ve been an advocate of coaches for years and have done a little life-coaching for others to some degree, [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
A woman I work with just offered me her husband. For sex.
I’m not sure what to say. It was one of those out-of-the-blue things that began with “I know you’re divorced and if you don’t have a boyfriend, I’d like to do you [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
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 [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
It’s a Saturday night and I’m in the midst of a Life-Death-and-the-Universe conversation with friends.
I’m curled up on the sofa, bare feet under me. The lights are down low, and a tea light anointed with rose oil burns on the altar with the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
At the end of the calendar year, people tend to look back on the events of the Earth’s previous revolution. It’s a time not just of looking back but of re-assessment, of what’s happened, and of figuring how to incorporate the lessons of the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
Is it safe to love yet?
My conversation with E’Lother has been on my mind for several days now. After a quick lunch in the car while I dropped some packages at the post office, a radio host reiterated parts of that discussion, citing the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
Be careful what you ask for because the Gods have a really wicked sense of humor. The Universe, God, Gods, angels, guides, whatever you choose to call It or Them…though in this case, I think it’s a Them because I swear I can hear [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
I’m sick. It happened in the usual way. I let myself get run down, caught a bug—and now it’s squashed me.
On the third day, I lie on the sofa, unable to lift my head without a sudden rush of nausea and hardly feeling the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
The only bad part—to me, anyway—about being “different” is that I sometimes get lonely for other people who are “different” like me. But here I am in the Bible Belt, in suburbia, in the midst of Republicans, conservatives, and a scary variety of fundamentalists. [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I’ve come to trust my intuition more than ever in the past year. And at the same time, there are still the times when I’m unsure. And I like to be sure. I do.
It’s hard for me to commit to certain things now, [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
Sometimes it’s important to list the memories you make. Every special event or family vacation should be memorialized as soon after as possible, not just in photos but in phrases that capture the moments.
+ The “balloon man” at TGIFridays told the girls he [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
We tell kids—and grown-ups, too—to “Just be yourself.” Do we really mean it? Or do we just want them to be the selves we want them to be?
The corollary to that, usually aimed at adults and errant wives, is “I just want you [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I’m doing my best to have a stress-free holiday season, but people just won’t hear of it.
Yes, I’ve been terribly stressed, but it all has to do with work deadlines, not the holidays. (Holidays? There are holidays?) The re-roofing process (which now looks [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
“You need to date more.”
Crap. What now? I’m looking at my intuitive friend, Shawna, over hot chocolate and shaking my head. I assure her I’m doing just fine and I’m quite busy. Not dating more than I do is not some kind of [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I am in love with this feeling, the fire of creativity coursing through my veins. I can’t remember when it’s been so strong or so furious or so insistent. It’s said that we find moments of immortality, that we defy death, in the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I’m not certain where the idea for the Healing Center came from or exactly when I first thought of it. It seems now that it’s been a part of me for so long that I can’t separate it from myself. I’ve watched friends [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
Life is made up of little turning points and big pictures. It’s a tree with infinite branches, each one a choice or decision or event that leads to a different timeline, a different infinity of universes, only one of which to follow to [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
The best thing about having your world shattered around you is rebuilding, even though it doesn’t seem like it at the time. But when you’re forced to rebuild, you have a chance to create the life you want.
Not that it’s easy and not [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
It’s December, and the biggest entertainment of the season is watching single men turn downright hilarious with their dating weirdness amid our societal expectations. You needn’t even try to talk to the guy at the water cooler about his professional opinion on the [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I’ve learned to pay attention to my dreams. All of them. The prophetic, the mundane, the symbolic.
It’s funny what we learn about ourselves and what we value. Last night, they were intense.
In one dream, I was in my car and I was driving. [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
November turned out to be a month none of us really expected, and I’m not sure if I’m glad it went by fast or not. In any case, I was told repeatedly that it would be a month for celebration.
Looking at my royally [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
I’m thinking about this a bit more because I’ve written several times in the past year that hey, I’m okay. Sometimes it sounds like a surprise and other times like so much self-talk so I don’t shrink back to where I was, but [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
My home is sacred, a symbol of my relationship with Deity. And I don’t really care if anyone else thinks so, but it’s my temple and a reflection of all who live and love and sleep within its walls.
I don’t defend what’s in [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
While chatting earlier this month, AngelSu warned me that I’d be sorely tested this month and to be prepared for vandalism and lots of activity and competition around Thanksgiving. I had no idea the vandalism would be by the roofing crew after I [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom .
My taste in clothes hasn’t changed, not really, since I was 19. I remember once in college, alone in my apartment with Roxy Music playing “Avalon” in the background, a glass of red wine in one hand, candles burning, and me barefoot and [...]
