Author: Lorna Tedder
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What It Is Wednesday: Being Reactive
I hate being reactive. I hate that I sometimes let people manipulate my feelings–joy occasionally, anger and jealousy mostly–for the sheer enjoyment of my emotional reaction. Even more, I hate that I often don’t even see it until looking back later. Some people just know how to push my buttons, and most often those…
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Anti-Bullying: Why I Dyed My Hair Purple
I dyed my hair purple last week. Professional salon job. It was time for a cut and color, long past because I can almost never schedule two afternoon hours off from work during the week and I’ve had silver in my hair since I was 18. My inability to get to the salon before my…
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What It Is Wednesday: Time Speeds Up
For a few years now, I’ve been feeling the energy of autumn not at the end of August or in September but the first week of August, even when it’s 105 outside. Like sensing 2nd harvest at 1st harvest, for those of you who understand that reference. For those who don’t, we’ll, there’s still a…
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The Single Biggest Regret of my Life
See there, I know what you did—you saw me say “the biggest single regret of my life” and you rushed over here to see if I was going to dish about a certain someone. Or, maybe, even about you. I’ve tried to live my life without regrets. I understand that I am a culmination of…
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What It Is Wednesday: The Magical Gift of Synchronicity
I love synchronicity, those sudden coincidences or long-growing life-changers that are changes of direction on our life maps and sometimes intersections with something or someone we never dreamed of. If ever there was a Godspark, synchronicity is it. It’s having your meeting moved unexpectedly to a building you never visit and running into someone you…
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I Literally Changed My Perspective in One Afternoon
Last week, in the course of one afternoon, I literally changed my perspective. And when I say literally, I mean both physically and mentally. If I’d had any idea how one little change in my work space would make life easier, I would have done it a few years back. You might not think…
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What It Is Wednesday: What Do I Want?
All my Father’s Day weekend company left, and I’m looking at a long list of chores and projects that “should have been done already,” like…weeks ago…that I feel the need to stress over because so much has always been expected of me, by myself more than anyone. And I’m deciding to take them one at…
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What It Is Wednesday: Is It ME with Drama?
Whoa. What happened? I’m not the one with drama. I’m never the one with drama. That’s other people, people all around me, but not me. But then, why am I feeling the ups and down of personal drama at the moment? Why are my own personal feelings upsetting to the person who has me so…
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What It Is Wednesday: Through the Lens of The Last Guy
So I…I met someone. Um, yeah. You think you’re surprised? Ha. Think about how I feel. I honestly didn’t think I’d ever allow myself to be stirred again, out of self-defense, let alone actually meet someone who has so many of the qualities I desire in a man. I’m a bit thrown off kilter, but…joyously…
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What Would You Do with a Second Chance?
What would you do with a second chance? Would you squander it? Would you change your life? Would you promise to start over and then lapse back into old habits? We think, most often, of second chances in life as being related to health or even near-death experiences, but they can just as easily be…