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Life Edit – 5 Days of Editing My Life
Last Sunday I heard an interesting story on NPR about space. Not the space as in the great beyond, planets, stars, solar systems. I’m talking about the space we inhabit. The story focused on our need...
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365 of Me: 235/131 – Life Edit: Day 1
How many of you have one of these? Or maybe I should ask how many of these do you have? If you are like me, you probably have several. Maybe they serve different purposes, or again, if you are like...
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365 of Me: 236/130 – Life Edit: Day 2
Today, for Day 2 of my 5 Day Life Edit challenge, I decided to tackle something a bit more physical. For Day 1, I cleaned up and organized my USB Drive and the desktop of my computer. Today it’s the...
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365 of Me: 237/129 – Life Edit: Day 3
Today’s Life Edit challenge wasn’t too hard for me, but as I said yesterday, this could be a tough one for some of you out there. I’m talking about cleaning out the photos on your cell phone. Unlike...
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365 of Me: 238/128 – Life Edit: Day 4
Several years ago, today would have been quite painful. There was a time in my life when I loved to collect books – the paperback or hardcover kind. Before we moved into our house 8 years ago, I...
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365 of Me: 239/127 – Life Edit: Day 5
I could probably do another 5 days of life editing and still not accomplish everything in my life that needs to be edited. But today is Day 5. I committed to 5 days so today I’m done for now. And...
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After the Tomatoes of Summer are Gone
It happened today. I was weed eating the back yard and carefully trimming around the plants, not really caring if I cut some of their leaves that were now drooping from foliage that already showed its...
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When a stranger calls…
Yesterday I received a phone call from a kind lady I didn’t know. But she knew everything about me. She had read the hundreds of letters that I had written to my long-time pen pal who lived in Oxford,...
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Cleaning out the closet…
We live in a small house with small closets. I have the “luxury” of having two closets, but it’s far from being an actual luxury. A tiny coat closet in the dining room holds all of my pants. It also...
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Dad’s Day
I got to speak to my father this morning. That means a lot to me to be able to speak with him and wish him a Happy Father’s Day and to have him know who I am. I was not that fortunate on his birthday...
View ArticleDear Photograph
Six years ago on my 35th birthday, my sister took the above photograph for me. I wanted to submit it to a website called Dear Photograph. They published it on their website two years later. The idea is...
View ArticleAn Unlaborous Labor Day
Last Saturday I left to go home to Tennessee to spend five days visiting family. I stay with my Mom while I’m there. It’s an annual September trip usually for her birthday which is actually next week....
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February 2020 Recap
We judge a lot of things by how they end. Books. Movies. My life in February. It was a short month, so I’ll try to make this a short post. Even though it’s a leap year, February is still the shortest...
View ArticleThe Inside of October
Autumn has always been my favorite time of year, and despite being an election year I hope this year’s fall season doesn’t sneak by unnoticed. With holidays approaching and less work to do outside and...
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You Can Write, But You Can’t Edit
Tennessee Williams at his typewriter The title of this post comes from a song called “Edit” by Regina Spektor. You can listen to it here. Another lyric from it that often resonates with me is: “White...
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