Today I choose: to ignore vitriolic rhetoric (in my life and in the media), to use my knowledge and perspective for good (yes, I need a cape), to focus on the future and its possibilities, to surround myself with the comforts that make me happy (sweaters, music, coffee), to learn something new, to focus on…
Category: Good Things
Good Things on a Sunday Night
Waiting for a new Nikon D-90 lens that should arrive in the next few days… Eating chocolate chip cookie dough (who needs cookies when there’s dough?)… Enjoying a roaring hot fire (even though it’s not really cold enough to have one)… Drinking peach-flavored Fresca (and it’s very peachy!)… Buying crappy stuff valuable items from eBay… Lastly, Although I’m afraid…
What I Learned in 2010
Without question, 2010 has been a hard year. I could dwell on what’s been hard, but there’s not much positive, not much good, in that. Instead, I will reflect on what this hard year as taught me. Seeing my daughter happy and healthy and living her life responsibly and smartly reminds me that I have…
Drive that Dusty Road
The phrase, “drive that dusty road,” comes from a Springsteen song. The phrase means more to me than that it comes from a great song (“Prove It All Night”); the phrase conjures up specific images of change and renewal, of leaving behind that which doesn’t work and driving toward that which does. Driving that dusty…
Good Things #1 (New Blog, New Start)
Experiencing today’s sudden (and unexpected) rain shower Being told my apartment looks like “something out of a magazine.” (I’m assuming this person meant the decorating…) Enjoying Sonic Drive In’s Happy Hour (half-price drinks between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m.) and $1 ice cream after 8:00 p.m. Disliking (but appreciating) the therapist who is kicking my ass….
Five Good Things (Pre-semester Edition)
As I’m overwhelmed and overstressed, I need to refocus my energies. Therefore, I write a “Good Things” list (and today, this was actually hard to do): I have a daughter who amazes me everyday. OK, I always list her in a “good things” list, but she is, well, a good thing. We spoke tonight and…
Good Things to Remember
Knowing there are seven class days left in this semester, and that’s seven too many. I need this semester to be over. But the good thing? There are only seven class days left. Feeling so very ready to move on. I want to, I need to move on today. Donating so many things…