2017…I’M OVER IT!

December 31, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

What’s my problem with this year? You name it…Someone I loved dearly passed away, I got reorganized out of my job, and changed my living arrangements. Just ALL of the main sources of stress we humans experience. It came down like this: February 16 I learned my job was going away, two days later my […]

15 YEARS LATER: SO MUCH HAS CHANGED

September 11, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

I didn’t plan on writing about 9/11. I really never thought I would. But here I sit, on the 15th anniversary of that awful day and I can’t help but reflect: We’ve lost our innocence. I remember being at work when it happened, hearing, “A plane hit the World Trade Center!” and thinking, “Oh no, […]

THE REASON IT HAD TO HAPPEN

July 28, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Maybe “reason” isn’t the right word. By “it,” I’m referring to The Break-up from a previous post. The reason doesn’t actually have anything to do with him, or why he couldn’t continue the relationship. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking in the months since then, about my life and about my future, what I […]

NEW HAMPSHIRE, A DINER & A BOY…

November 24, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

Thanks to a boy I had a bittersweet introduction to lovely New Hampshire this autumn. Between the boy and the environs, well, this city girl was considering the rural life. It was just so beautiful. Peaceful. Bucolic. And him. “How could anyone have ever let you go?” he said.