Month: August 2016

  • What It Is Wednesday: Is Texting Destroying Us?

    I’m on of those people who uses my smart phone for just about everything except making phone calls. It’s been that way ever since the first additional features on our phones beyond calling:   texting, instant messaging, Facebook messenger, various apps, even email.  I’m not sure how it started but non-spoken communications have become my…

  • Does Love Come Late in the Season?

    Mother Nature is toying with me, reminding me that even when it seems too late in Life’s seasons for some things, some things have a way of blooming unexpectedly, long past when I thought they would.   And some things I thought were lost…return. As I write this, we are into the last week of…

  • What It Is Wednesday: Dating Sucks

    “Dating sucks!” The guy in front of me stopped and yelled at both everyone and no one in particular as I was starting my sunrise miles. The woman with him–a relative, maybe a sister?–shushed him but agreed. They’d stopped right in front of me, and I couldn’t help but eavesdrop as I passed them. “It’s…

  • Werewolves and a Negative State of Mind

    State of mind has a lot to do with our communications and how we perceive life. Something that puts us in a negative state of mind or feeling of being under attack can make the simplest subsequent communication with a stranger seem equally negative or malevolent. Like most people, I need reminders of this, and…

  • What It Is Wednesday: Who Ya Gonna Call?

    I have a gift. Apparently. Here’s how it almost always plays out, whether you are an intern, an acquaintance, a co-worker, a leader in my organization, a best friend, a neighbor, a man I’d really like to spend more time with.  The pattern is the same. You can barely breathe.  In fact, you’re not sure…

  • Before You Get Too Old, Make Things Right

    There’s nothing sadder—or more karmic—than the husk of a once vital, strong, aggressive, even abrasive individual who has waited too late to make things right and has to both live and die with that regret. I’ve seen enough of it to know to try to do my best by people so that I won’t have…

  • What It Is Wednesday: Cutting in Line

    “What’s wrong with people,” I wondered as I was trying on shoes in a store over in Destin, “that they get so dug into their positions and can’t seem to see what’s obvious to everyone else?” I was thinking this in terms of politics, both on the national scale and in my own workplace. It…

  • Empath: The Best Personality Type to Marry

    Empath: The Best Personality Type to Marry

    Question:  What is the best personality to marry if you are an empath? Someone who is emotionally healthy. That is, of course, the ideal answer for everyone, empath or not, but as an empath, you do have special needs and the last thing you want is to … This post has been incorporated into my…

  • What It Is Wednesday: Givers and Takers

    It’s my nature to be a Giver.  I can’t change that. I’ve tried–short spats of disillusioned refusal to give one more inch, in an effort to draw boundaries and protect myself from giving too much. I’m a recovering co-dependent, and that’s the best I can hope for:  to find positive ways to channel that early…

  • Applied Astrology: Leo Moons and Narcissistic Behaviors

    As a blogger on the subjects of astrology and empaths, I find that the question I’m asked more than any other is about zodiac signs and narcissists, which I believe to be the polar opposite of an empath and certainly the bane of many empaths I know, including myself. The most consistent and amusing question…