Category Archives: Join me on the couch, or How did that make you feel?

People Who Need People

Human interaction is a complex phenomenon made even more interesting by the setting in which it takes place.  In my last entry I told about starting a student council at the school I attend.  My co-founder and I went room-to-room first period … Continue reading

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Twelve-Step Bidder

I have this eBay thing going, I’m not sure if you’d call it an affection or an addiction, but I suppose the sheer fact that I can’t tell which one it is puts it over the line.  Up until my … Continue reading

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That Monday Feeling

We’re having a Jacuzzi installed as part of our long-awaited bathroom renovation project which means a portal to access the motor has to be installed in an adjacent room and the contractor suggested Son’s room, now missing Son.  For better or … Continue reading

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Secure About My Insecurity

Our computer teacher/preacher is back after being gone several weeks during which time we were taught by the school’s business director, so there was actual information exchanged.  Now that she’s returned, I’m hesitant to rag on her here because she is probably … Continue reading

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Necessity to Yield

Monday my new school term began and I hit the ground running.  I felt like some character in a Lifetime pilot, one about a remarried mother of grown children trying to get a degree, keep her shrink appointments, resolve a … Continue reading

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No Stupid Children

People fluent in computer-speak know what a link is and although I am familiar with the term I didn’t know I could actually create one.  For blog purposes, a link is useful in referencing something in a previous entry and … Continue reading

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Ghosts in My Head

May is a loaded month at our house for good and for bad.  It is the month both Husband and I were born.  It is the month in which Son will soon graduate college.  It holds Mother’s Day.  And it … Continue reading

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What, Me Worry?

There is peace of mind and then there is a piece of your mind.  The moment you become a parent you start giving out lots of the second in an effort to get a small chunk of the first.  Here … Continue reading

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The Scent of Forgiveness

In the newspaper today, there was a story about a crime victim who had taken her own road to reconciling the wrong that had been committed against her and the young man who perpetrated it.  It is the lesson of an … Continue reading

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Roots and Wings

Time goes on and changes need to be made.  As a Taurus, I’m not so good with changes.  Which is why the house is still cluttered with the belongings of people I once gave birth to but have now moved … Continue reading

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