Category: Health

Somebody  gave  me  some  bad  information  about women over 40. A lot of somebodies.  Over the years. I don’t blame them. Not  really. They believed  what they were telling me. Growing up in a tiny Southern town that was timewarped by at least 25 years, I often heard that if you were a woman, you’d…

My cousin Ramona tells me she’s frustrated with being “on the verge” of so many things, including being on the verge of walking again 9 months after a motorcycle accident. She’s also on the verge of reclaiming  herself  and getting her life back, and her words strike a chord  with me. The phrase, “on the…

One of the most disconcerting feelings in the world is to run into an ex or an old boyfriend or just someone you went out with and liked and to find out he has someone special in his life now…an infant. It’s a weird feeling because it conjures up so many deeper emotions. The child…

The girls decided to come home from their dad’s so they could  have dinner with me. Actually, they did it to see who’d won the “freezer challenge.” Shannon came up with a great idea—after watching too many Top Model shows and Runway Challenges. She and her sister would compete each week, with her cooking on…

On occasion,  I  revert  to  my  roots  and  my  South Georgia accent comes out with a vengeance.  My daughters think it’s hilarious. I’m not sure what triggers it. The girls tell me that whenever I tell a story from my childhood,  I  start  talking  “Southern”  again.  (Hey!  Y’all don’t be makin’ fun of my raisings…

The house is looking massively bigger since I began my major overhaul of the front yard and started cutting down the roofer-damaged  shrubs. Hours of business and motivational podcasts playing, breezy sunshine in the 80’s in mid-January, and me with a chainsaw? Yeah. And Shannon unexpectedly getting in a few extra hours in the office…

I don’t get them. But then, maybe I’m not supposed to. Maybe that’s a good thing, a miracle. Sometimes I feel like it’s such a struggle to make sure all the bills are paid and I keep up with all the accounting and bank statements and remember what’s what and take care of it all.…

Sometimes when I’m having a really good day, I hear a nagging voice in my head that serves only to undermine. It’s not a voice from my childhood or from my ex or from my own self-doubts.  Many of those—though  not all—I’ve exorcized over the past few of years. This is different. Like the others…

Like many people, I like learning about myself—and why I am the  way I am—through  personality  tests, including astrology.  I’m stunned to discover  that, contrary to what I thought,  I really am not that good at  letting people be who they are. WARNING:  ASTRO-GEEK   STUFF  BUT  VERY COOL: I have some pretty unusual stuff…

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I’ve been taking my intention very seriously—not  to give unpaid advice. It’s saving me some valuable time, especially in the area of screwed up accounts and business transactions where I’m the customer  and normally  give feedback. Places where you don’t normally think of feedback as an unpaid professional advice. Here’s a perfect example. A month…