What Were You Thinking?
Have you ever heard this question? My answer is always the same. Most people ask this question when something has gone horridly awry, yet when I hear it most often is during the telling of a story...
View ArticleWhat or how?
“It is not what you say; it is how you say it.” ~ Russell Dwyer “Horse pucky.” ~ Sherman Potter I have forever heard the argument it is not what you say but the way you say it which matters. You are...
View ArticleOnly One
We did the Widowed Blog Hop, and you read Killing Us Softly. You got to know the part of me which dealt with becoming a widow. Most of you looked on with my train wreck fascination¹. What we have never...
View ArticleTotal Sensory Input
Has anyone ever told you, “I am a visual person. You have to show me.”? Maybe you know someone who is auditory who needs the instructions read to them. Tactile people have to do it themselves to learn...
View ArticleSaturday Evening Post
The week has been filled with near misses, almost events and wishful thinking. Snuggle into a rocker, and grab a cuppa. Let’s talk. Have you ever noticed when you are after something you can recount...
View ArticleIf Only to Throw a Rock
When one loses function of a limb, even for a brief time, and the use returns, it is alien. The same can be said of organs. As difficult as it may be to fathom, we all at some point have lost the use...
View ArticleWhen
I have never really know when to say “when”. Routinely, I overestimate my capacity to endure, withstand and under what conditions I am willing to survive. (This post does not translate well. If you...
View ArticleJust
Are you just ecstatic when someone tells you, “If you had just…”? *eye roll* Just is one of the words which smacks of I told you so without saying aloud You should have known I am the expert in that....
View ArticleAce of Spades
Were the world only black and white, my heart would be pitch, so it would stand in stark contrast to the self-righteous white mind. (If the only thought which came to mind was race, do not read any...
View ArticleLetter to Santa
Good evening, Nicky. I heard the deer were in good form this year because Mrs. Claus has mastered the high-energy recipe for carrot soufflé I emailed her in the spring. My requests for this year should...
View ArticleSaturday Evening Post
On this last Saturday of 2014, Clyde has to question what keeps our skulls convex. This year is ending on a cold note, so grab a blanket and a cuppa. Your rocker is ready for snuggling, and the fire is...
View ArticleLeaves and Pages and Elephants
New Year’s resolutions. Social media is full of them. How about a different sort of challenge? Herculean tasks often fail because the magnitude of them require a type and quantity of attention which...
View ArticleSaturday Evening Post
How is it the first week of the year, albeit one of the shortest, could be so long? Grab a blanket and a cuppa since it is frigid. Clyde’s goose bumps are all lined up. Let’s talk. While M3 returns to...
View ArticleRight Now
Carpe diem. Live for the day. Seize the opportunity. Which one is yours, and where do you apply it? We have all seen the heroic movies where the battle cry is to stand up for our beliefs and rights and...
View ArticleDear Fingerprints
Put that dust rag away. Not those fingerprints. Dear Fingerprints, I know you hold my identity definitively opposed to everyone else’s. While that is a huge task, it is not a task which requires...
View ArticleBeast Mode
No, not that going to the gym thing. Not even a Clyde thing. Just primal. Ever come to a crossroads and have the urge to bellow? On one side, the world is its oblivious self, never noticing you exist....
View ArticleInchoate
Have you ever been a larva? The mammals in the audience are scoffing at the opening. Yes, most mammals eat larvae. Yes, most humans exterminate larvae. Yet, the question really remains, not so...
View ArticleSEP: What You Want
Saturday Evening Post time, so grab a cuppa and snuggle into a rocker. The fans are on high to chase away the evening heat. Children tell you what they want as a matter of need. Without telling you...
View ArticleSearching…
Keywords make finding what we want easy. Telling a clerk for what we search makes it simpler for us to get help finding it. What happens when we have no idea how to describe what we want? Single...
View ArticleSaturday Evening Post: Not My Way
I am all for naked cats.” ~ Red Dwyer When the inevitable look comes, you know the one… a cow looking at a new bicycle, the remainder of the quote is “There is more than one way to skin them.” Likely,...
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