January 2 : Carmen

January 2, 2011

Today was lazy. My guess is most people are waiting for Monday to strike before making good on those resolutions. I brunched at a dear friend’s house this afternoon. Their neighbor’s wife, Carmen, was volunteering at the Pasadena Rose Parade for the afternoon. It rained. When she arrived, she had the look of exhaustion on [...]

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Something about resolutions…

January 1, 2011

And so it has arrived. 2011. With it comes the promise of new beginnings, like the first day of school when everyone is carrying their shiny, lunchbox and nifty new backpack.  Except, my backpack is not new. It’s more like baggage and it’s filled with leftover emotions from 2010 that somehow didn’t disappear when I [...]

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January 1 : Eliott

January 1, 2011

I get a kick out of talking to kids.  They have insights that experience can’t buy.  Eliott is 4-1/2 years old. He’s smarter than the average bear and completely full of energy. I sat down with him to talk about the world at large. First we had to define it. Me: What is the world? [...]

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One Mississippi, Two Mississippi…

December 31, 2010

I did it again. I reacted too quickly to a situation.  I should have counted to 60 slowly, but the anger was too close to the surface. The trigger was too raw and the reaction was too quick. Once I opened my mouth, I knew there would be no easy way out. I shouted in [...]

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It’s not about you.

December 16, 2010

As the general population act like raving narcissists, myself included, I thought it prudent to point out a few situations that do not merit taking offense. It’s hard to admit, but sometimes, it’s just not about you. Like when I’m stressed about work and I wave from afar instead of walking over and fawning all [...]

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Holiday conundrum

December 10, 2010

Like so many people I know, I maintain a love/hate relationship with the holidays.  A slight depression takes hold immediately following Halloween and hangs on right through New Years. I think it goes without saying that most of us are predisposed to a limited amount of holiday cheer. It comes with the gentle reminder that [...]

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Difficult to Say

December 9, 2010

I just had a difficult conversation with my husband.  It was the kind of talk that can lead to a bad situation.  I’ve never been one to hold back. I don’t believe in the idea that there are some things you do not share with your mate. I’ve been in a needy state lately.  Some [...]

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It’s not about me.

December 1, 2010

There’s a flip side to it’s not about you. I recently had a very unpleasant experience with another mom from my son’s school.  For many months, without my knowledge there was some gossip being created about my family.  One disgruntled woman was stating lies as truth to the parent population.  This went on for many [...]

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How did I get here?

November 19, 2010

I wonder that A LOT.  This life is broken into a thousand conductors and passages, held together with muscle, memory and emotions.  It’s complicated and I love it.  If human anatomy aims to explore how we physically work, then why not emotional anatomy.  I consider it the gross anatomy of life.

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