Arg…sometimes my brain has other ideas and sleeping isn’t one of them. I have a back room in my brain. It’s where I keep plans, projects and problems I’m not immediately working on. Sometimes it gets quite crowded and generally I keep it orderly by making lists of All The Things. Lately, though, with the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Musings/Rantings
First World Problems
Oh. My. Gosh. I apparently had a paper napkin in a pocket and it went through the washer. And the dryer. I didn’t realize the lint trap in the dryer could hold that much fluff…and all this from a small napkin. Yikes. I shook clothing out, used up half a lint roller and am still… Continue Reading
The Anniversary I Thought I’d Never Have
Today would have been my forty-first wedding anniversary. What is extraordinary is that I realized it’s the first time in a long while I haven’t associated the date with sadness, anger…grief. Even when I was still married, today was a reminder of how far we had slipped, how dark the future. How I didn’t think… Continue Reading
I Just Don’t Even Know
Some days are like that, and today is one of them; I just don’t even know. Hell, I don’t even know what it is I don’t even know. So I thank All The Powers That Be for the gym and the road. Isak Dineson said “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears… Continue Reading
The In-between-Season
The snow tires are off and the Sandhill cranes have returned but I don’t yet dare to wash and put away my winter coat. It’s that weird in-between-season: too warm for flannel sheets and too chilly for regular ones. Ah, spring in the Rockies! Continue Reading
To Slow Down is to Catch Up
Paradox Have you ever noticed how often this happens? I’m not saying you don’t have to do your work, but have you noticed that when you stop pushing so. darn. hard. what you need becomes available? Maybe you have done what you were supposed to do: you followed the formula, your timeline and bullet… Continue Reading
Heavy lifting
Today’s workout is dedicated to Marcus, who taught me lifting things. Continue Reading
Intentions of a Late Winter Solstice 2017
Sometimes work gets in the way Winter Solstice has come and gone, not un-noticed and not without the setting of intentions, but all un-written until now. And as we all know, thoughts don’t become real until we get them out of our head and onto paper. Writing My book is written and I have the… Continue Reading
Half a World Away is Right Down the Road
Out of the comfort zone The clinic I worked at yesterday is twenty miles and half a world away from my home. Thirty years ago there was a Catholic hospital downtown, and when I worked there we saw most of the recent immigrants to the city. I expected this shift would feel like my old… Continue Reading
