I’m sitting in my sister’s beautiful home, listening to my kids and their cousins squeal with laughter as they play in the “bouncy bounce”. All morning they’ve been playing outside in the snow, only to come in to warm up with hot cocoa and marshmallows. The bouncing in the basement is a wonderful […]

I’m sitting in my sister’s beautiful home, listening to my kids and their cousins squeal with laughter as they play in the “bouncy bounce”.  All morning they’ve been playing outside in the snow, only to come in to warm up with hot cocoa and marshmellows.  The bouncing in the basement is a wonderful new way […]

Yesterday’s Oprah featured guests who had tried to kill themselves but survived. Their purpose for appearing on the show was to help others who might be feeling as desperate and tell them that they should reach out and ask for help. However, one woman did say that after repeatedly sharing with her mother […]

By the end of last week, I was fried. End-of-year work issues, holiday parties, over-eating, drinking and spending, gift-giving galore, school performances, teacher presents, another month of interrupted, crumby sleep…Talking to my friend, I shared with some embarassment that I was feeling kind of desperate, really bottoming out. Without missing a beat, she […]

Yesterday morning I could not find my wallet. After turning my apartment upside down, it was clear that I had lost my wallet in a cab the evening before…again. I had it when I pulled out my money to pay for my ride. Less than 2 months ago, I did the same […]

I am just home from our holiday party and I am all aglow with the love I feel for my colleague friends. They are so smart and fun and loveable….how can these be the same people I want to muzzle throughout my day? Today I got into such a heated discussion with co-workers […]

Rather than rewrite every past post, can’t we all assume that I have at least as many positive thoughts about my work as negative? I glance over previous entries and fear that I sound too negative, too anxious, too whatever. I’m working on being more accepting of myself–the good, the bad, the ugly. […]

I have to consciously resist the pull for drama practically every moment at my job. Someone is misunderstanding someone else at every turn and feeling simultaneously paranoid and indignant at each perceived slight. Personally, I have to keep reciting “kill ‘em with kindness” as if I’m warding off spirits.
Complicating matters is the fact […]

On Friday, my older son was mean to another child during a parent breakfast. Thus, not only was I present but so was the other boy’s mother and many other parents. A good thing because we were there and could intervene. A bad thing because we were there and could intervene.
Two days earlier, […]