I love to write. I love to read. I love the paragraph that makes me pause and compels me to read it again, letting it wash over me while its tone and rhythm captivate me. The structure of the paragraph reminds me of open-water swimming in the Pacific (my favorite spot is shown above). You…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
My Friend is Expecting
My friend is having a baby; her baby is due in twelve days. Let me back up, I should explain that I do not have children of my own, birthed by me. There are lots of reasons why I do not, and, again, I’ll save that for a future post. However, I do have…
Going It Alone
Don’t be afraid. You can do it. I believe that if more people had the right support and confidence, they’d work for themselves. Like many other areas of life, you don’t know what you’re missing if you’ve never tried it. Remember trying a food when you were young that you thought or had heard was…
I Enjoy Tipping
As the usual story goes, I was a waitress once and have been in the service-related professions on and off for much of my working life. When someone deserves it, I dish the tips out for as much as I can afford. However, sometimes, things don’t always turn out as I intend. There is a…
Lead From The Front
I want to write about what seems to me to be a very simple concept, but what I rarely experienced in my work life back when I had a job that required a BlackBerry and an 80-hour work week. Life is different for me now, and I’ll explain that in a post another day, but…
What You See
I used to run up, or ride my road bike up, this one huge hill it at least once, if not twice a day. When I eventually made it to the top, I always saw this image. I snapped this photo later in the day one afternoon, but in pretty much all shades of daylight, the…