Focusing on the one thing I could control, I decided to look at my attitude towards the weekend. On Friday, I had decided to understand how I needed to think if I was going to relax and enjoy the day. It was clear that I normally would be stressed out about not doing things I…
Category: Some days I feel like myself
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
I’ve got one hand in my pocket Traveling into work yesterday, this song came on the radio. I am not ashamed to admit that I cranked up the volume and sang along. A month ago, I wasn’t even turning the radio on. I was on a winding backroad through cornfields and soybean crops. The sun…
No Debt But Love, has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award.
“Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Well, maybe not just yet. After all, I have only been blogging for four months. But thanks to readers like you, my day just got incredibly better. No Debt But Love has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. View the Nomination Here You can learn more about…
Self-care can be hard work
I took the day off and devoted it to self-care. Ok, so my self-care includes weed eating around the fenced-in part of the property and mowing several acres on the riding mower. Today it also involved removing the netting from over the strawberry plants and weeding around the plants. And then my daughter and I…
The heater was emitting Carbon Monoxide and we were dying.
I was reminded today that when I was 5 years old, I saved the family from asphyxiation. We had moved from New Jersey to Mobile Alabama in 1960. My father was an engineer and he had a chance to go to work for this new government startup called NASA. They had facilities in Mobile. So…
I’m off to see the Wizard
I’ve been offered a job. When I meet with the wizard (my new boss), I know what he can do for my friends and support groups. He will give out courage and even a testimonial to those in my group. But is there anything in his basket for me? Dorothy had to learn that she…
My Super Summer Saturday
It was a lazy summer Saturday. Hot, as you would expect, and humid, as you would prefer it wasn’t. Yet, I had planned out the day to take advantage of the cooler parts. I even had a plan for the hottest part of the day. In the morning, I worked on my mailbox. All the…
I gained 10 pounds – I must be cured!
When I was up against the wall, in the days leading up to my checking into the hospital, I was forcing myself to eat. I did not have an appetite. I was drinking 86 or more ounces of water each day but eating very few calories. So, here’s the story. In the seven months after…
Am I seeing the future clearly?
Today I am thinking I can work again. Not that I haven’t been, but the pace and intensity I feel just ratcheted up a notch. This is only the second day since I was in the hospital for depression that I have felt like I could really get back into my business. The crazy thing…
Is there something about Mondays?
Two Monday’s in a row I have felt almost normal. Last week I was at home, making the final enhancements to the workshops I am giving. This Monday, I presented the workshop twice. Once in the morning, and once in the afternoon. Tomorrow I am doing the same thing. A 3-hour morning session, then I…
