Day: May 5, 2010

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. If you’re not psychic, think Tesla. Think unified field theory. Think physics. Think energy patterns and maybe even satellite communications signals, which is what it’s most closely related to. If you are psychic, you’re with me already…. Or think of the mother-child bond…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Ironic, isn’t it? Some of the best intuitives I’ve ever known cannot see for themselves and help themselves in the same way they see for and help other people. At a Friday spiritual Gathering, I offhandedly mention how often I’ve been berated for…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. If you miss someone or something, it simply means they had an impact on your life. It’s an honor to be missed—absence, more than anything else, can show how connected we are to someone or something, even if we didn’t realize it. When…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. I’m not sure that understanding Biology 101 makes it any easier emotionally. Or if maybe we’re just all damned but keep trying to pretend humans are something other than animals. In putting together the first Spilled Candy newsletter I’ve put out in quite…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. I’ve been given another perspective on why date-able men find out about my kids and run like hell. Here, all this time, I thought it was because my daughters were teenagers. But it wasn’t. It was business, strictly business. I wouldn’t consider what…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. I am so tired of waiting for other people. And anyone with a lecture on patience can just go straight to their form of hell, whatever and wherever that may be. I’ve been patient. I think I’ve waaaaaaaaysucceeded in the patience department. I’ve…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. So. My 16-year-old daughter and I discovered today how to get a man’s attention. Lots of them. Without even having to shower or hike up our skirts. We’d been re-designing my front yard, and some jobs just can’t be done with a chainsaw.…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Sometimes it’s really not a coincidence. Especially not if you asked for it. My boss’ boss asked that I research a certain topic and brief him in 2 days. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but I was stuck in back-to-back meetings for…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Every couple of weeks, someone asks me if I’m terribly jealous of my ex’s new girlfriend. I’m not and I never have been, even though I fully expected to be because I’d received enough warnings from well-meaning acquaintances and counselors. But no, not…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. I must give something up soon, and it’s going to be a very good thing that I do. My coach says I’m like the blindfolded woman with two swords. I’m holding onto so much right now that my hands are tied and something…