• Ladies and Gentlemen…

    Flashback Friday Ladies and gentlemen…once again, Katy Perry! I haven’t been to a lot of concerts in my life. Always admired my friends who went to great shows, but somehow I never thought that I could go see great concerts. I did see New Kids on the Block one time on one of their Mix…

  • Baseball, Anyone?

    I have actually had to think about this question a lot lately. Without revealing too much about what my new job is, I’ll just say that I have interacted with people who are considering moving to my city. Many of these people are coming from states on the other side of the country. Last Friday,…

  • I Like Beets, But I Don’t Like Liver (or Pepsi)

    Flashback Friday I’m revisiting one of the daily prompts that came up on this day last year. I thought maybe there was a way I could tie in my answer to the “Flashback Friday” theme. My answer to this question last year was “Why?”. My husband would always try and help me when my anxiety…

  • Still Enjoying It

    With this prompt last year I reflected on the fact that a year before I needed a break from everything…grad school, my job as the principal of a school, all of it. Last year at this time I was enjoying the break. My permanent break. I had quit all of what was stressing me out,…

  • Undone and Unsettled

    Talk About it Tuesday Have you ever had an antsy kind of feeling? Where you feel unsettled? Maybe there’s a touch of anxiety mixed in. That’s how I was feeling last night because of things not “done”. There are various meanings of “done”. I was first bothered by our ongoing spare-bedroom-turned-creative-space project. We are almost…

  • No, no! Not there!

    Last year when I answered this question, I didn’t have an answer. I reflected on the fact that I had already done the thing that I was most scared to do, which was quit my job of 19 years. And to do it, all it took was a phone call from my “mentor” where she…

  • Kind of a Let Down

    I’m currently reading a book that I wanted to read last October. Remember when I talked about it in this post? Where Books and Movies Meet It’s the book Remain written by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan. It came out in October and I pre-ordered it because Josh and I are huge M. Night…

  • From Different to the Same

    Let me tell you what my honest, very first reaction was to this question…I literally said out loud “not a g**damn thing”. Then I paused for a moment and wondered if I answered this last year. I know the prompts are repeated every day now, but last year I didn’t always answer them each day.…

  • Not Tonight Jason!

    Today is movie/music Monday and also a day when the prompt is asking about what we think about more, the past or the future. Last year I wrote a very serious post about past trauma. This year, I’m thinking of something more immediate. I’m thinking about the past today because last night (the past) I…

  • Let it Snow…But Not Too Much

    My idea for Flashback Friday fits perfectly with the second part of this prompt. I don’t “play” in my daily life. I do things for fun, like knitting, crocheting, reading, and/or writing. However, there is one thing that immediately screams, “Time to play!” whenever I see it. And living here in the south, I don’t…