Monthly Archives: January 2017
Life in Pieces of Spending Habits
For years, I have read about the importance of tracking spending and as a result, I have attempted many times to create a budget. The budget never lasted long because it always showed that, well, I did not have enough … Continue reading
Life in Pieces of Revisiting Plagiarism
Monica Crowley backs out of Donald Trump’s administration after plagiarism accusations. To be fair, I heard of Monica Crowley for the first time a few weeks ago and I truly have no opinion about her. She is simply the current … Continue reading
And, now, for the weirdest medical diagnosis ever.
In September 2016, I was diagnosed with achalasia—a condition I had never heard of. Only one person out of between 100,000 and 200,000 people has achalasia. With a US population of about 325,000,… Source: And, now, for the weirdest medical … Continue reading
Life in Pieces of Finding the Good
I have been working to teach a 9 year old to “find the good” in situations instead of letting negative outcomes shut her down. I have informed her that my initial reaction to certain situations is to shutdown and let … Continue reading
4 Word Resolution
On Twitter, people submitted their four word new year’s resolutions. https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/My4WordNewYearsResolution?src=hash I am not one to make resolutions. I just live my life to my best each day and I am always looking for ways to improve. Sometimes, I find ways … Continue reading
That Thing Called LOVE
Fantasies and Realities of Love Fantasy: If I say “I love you” it means we are together forever. Reality: If I say “I love you”, I always will but we may part ways in the future. Fantasy: I will never … Continue reading
Life in Pieces of Where Do You Get Your Water?
Cheryl Strayed posed the question, “Where did you get your water?” This made me think, for all the struggles that I have encountered, where did I find my strength to move forward and become the person that I am today? … Continue reading
The Fork in the Road
A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a friend about retirement. During the conversation, it was clear that the person had an idea of what they wanted for retirement but as concrete as it should have sounded, to … Continue reading