Day: May 5, 2010
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When Stuck in a Miserable Job….
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Sometimes, you have to wonder why a Higher Being would allow you to stay in a miserable, soul-sucking job. Or even in a moderately satisfying job that still doesn’t fulfill your life’s purpose. But sometimes, that’s exactly why you’re in a position you…
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Can Things Be Right Again?
Can things ever be right again when someone is hurting and needing to crawl into their own little cave for a while? Must be something in the stars. I’m watching several situations with startling similarities. They all involve people who are hurt retreating into their own worlds and people who are reaching out, sometimes wanted…
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Disheartened
As of lunch today, I am woefully disheartened. It seems that there are no men left that I would give a second look. The good ones are all taken. Hell, so are the bad ones. Especially the bad ones. That’s what’s gotten me so disheartened this afternoon. Which brings me to a question I’ve asked…
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Intent to Harm
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. I’m always amazed at some so-called grown-ups. They attack in the dark, not wanting anyone to know their identity, least of all me, and then…say something that gives them away. The tiniest thing. From the Bookshelf Rite of Reckoning — a Southern witch…
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Time To Update My Criteria
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Weh-heh-heh-hell. I see that it’s time to update my criteria for a romantic partner. As if the list of my Herculean-task-type criteria wasn’t long enough already and damned near impossible for any man on the planet to meet more than 2 of… if…
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Screwdriver Slinger?
Yesterday, a male reader wrote me about an old entry from my archives, one where I talked about a trip to the hardware store to buy an axe and the resulting Pavlovian response of the men I encountered there. He writes, “The fact that you were at a hardware store, with normal clothes and a…
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No Cure for Saturday Night Insomnia
I can’t sleep right now and I refuse to meditate anymore tonight. Sometimes these meditative visions…journeys…whatever they are…are more disturbing than nightmares, and this one has me crying. Hard. I can’t stop. I cannot stop. I’ve finished half a box of Kleenexes in less than 10 minutes and I can’t stop crying. I won’t sleep…
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Telling Secrets…Then Taking It a Step Deeper into the Grave
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. I’m going to tell you a secret. Well, okay, it’s not really a secret—it’s just something I don’t talk about, and because I don’t generally talk about it, people assume that it’s a secret or something that I’m ashamed of. From the Bookshelf…
