Like breathing out and breathing in… My coughs, my tightened throat, its ups, its downs are second nature to me now… I am a compulsive eater, a compulsive game player, a compulsive knitter, crossword puzzle addict, procrastinator, Facebook checker, analytic, critic, compulsive […]
Continue reading »Category: Honesty
She’s Your Teacher
She cheated me. She lied to me. She made me look like a fool with my new partners. I’m a lawyer and had no contract and hate myself for the oversight but I had tried so hard to please her, […]
Continue reading »Not Selfish
Like putting on a your life vest before a child’s. Like taking a plank from your own eye before a splinter in another’s. Like getting a strong foothold before reaching out to help someone, a good grasp before offering to […]
Continue reading »Do What You Cannot
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso “But I’m too weak, I’ll never make it.” Don’t worry; we have all thought and said the same […]
Continue reading »Too Late
I guess it’s too late to live on a farm, although it’s never appealed, I’d never have chosen it. Some things, though, I wish I’d done. And as I sit here at sixty-eight I’m prone to say it’s too late. […]
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