I hate when my car texts me. Well, sorta texts me. The bright dash screen flashed: Please shut of vehicle and check coolant levels. Oh oh. After I shut off my car I pondered my options: 1. Do nothing and act innocent when the car blows up. 2. Tell my husband the car told me to tell him to check… Read More
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping)
I was excited to see that Valerie Lis has not one, but two, YouTube videos on Emotional Freedom Techniques. I hope you will check them out because almost everyone I know who has practiced the techniques respond positively. I first met Valerie when I was a student in AnokaRamsey Community College’s Integrative Health and Healing program. Although I wasn’t fortunate… Read More
A Full Moon Kind Of Crazy
Booker ran down the path, blue eyes blazing and pink tongue flopping. He was on a mission to mow me down and we both knew it. My only warning? The gleam in his eyes. I gave out a little squeal and barely sidestepped his furry canon-ball assault. He zipped by, rounded the birdfeeder, and then came back at me from… Read More
Rx For Customer Service
A hot flash here, a hot flash there, here a flash, there a flash, everywhere a flash, flash. So goes menopause. For sometime now I’ve been using bio-identical progesterone and estrogen to calm my menopausal symptoms with great success. The hormones are prescribed by my midwife/nurse practitioner and compounded by a pharmacy near the Twin Cities. My insurance company gave… Read More
Caught Red Handed, Or At Least Pink Nailed
Argh! The dilemma! I was shopping in Walmart with a rumpled list, a creaky cart, and a wandering husband. The layout of this particular store is different than the one I usually visit, so I was more than a little lost and distracted. The pet food was near the laundry soap; my husband was looking for hand lotion somewhere near… Read More
What’s In Store
Something happened to me en route to adulthood. I can remember being asked to be a flower girl for the homecoming court when I was in second grade. Was I nervous or shy about walking down a paper-covered aisle amongst a gymnasium full of people? Nuh-uh. I was happy and excited. My hair bounced with round fat curls held back… Read More
As The Saying Goes
I love quotes. I love them even more when they are short and pithy. Mark Twain said, “If a man holds a cat by the tail, he learns things he cannot learn in any other way.†All I can say is amen to that. A good short quote is sometimes the kick in the butt needed to move forward. Or,… Read More
Frozen Lemonade
Minus forty degree wind chills described as “bracing.†Wave after wave of snowfall described as “just enough to freshen the landscape.†Icy roads that “keep our driving skills honedâ€. It’s becoming harder and harder to come up with euphemisms that uplift as winter wears on. And on. And on. If I hear one more, “Well, we are hardy Minnesotans after… Read More
Crazy Time
“I came to see if Crazy was here.†The man’s voice was thin and crackly and drew my attention. I was leaning on the counter of our local post office waiting for a manila envelope to be weighed, priced, and stamped. Needless to say, this was a welcome and intriguing interruption. Not that a visit to the post office lacks… Read More
The Need To Lash Out
Love and Hate. Intertwined, mysterious, ongoing. This past weekend I read a newspaper article about a young woman who blogs about the ongoing process of accepting her body as is. She is, by popular cultural standards, overweight. Over the years she has dealt with self-abusing thoughts, well intentioned but intentionally painful advice from loved ones, and out and out cruel… Read More
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