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Siblings, in-laws or close friends might be the source of a current drama that begs for your involvement. However, if the circumstances are peripheral to you, it may be best to keep them that way. Your worry over something that doesn’t directly concern you could be motivated by your own unresolved issues. It’s best not [...]

Go to Disneyland. I’m serious! I’ve had a plan to meet up with out-of-state friends at Thanksgiving in California with part of my family’s time spent in the Land of the Mouse. We go every two years. However, my calculations were based on what I was earning at the time I made the decision. Due [...]

Every new “Today” seems more anxious than ever. Do you find more solace in “Yesterday” or “Tomorrow”? Why? Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort. Find solace in yesterday? No. Tomorrow? Tomorrow is probably what I need solace from, lol. Today is as anxious as I allow it to be. [...]

Flowering Rhododendron bush in front of our house~ Surprises always “excite” me (I hate surprises–always have) and there’s been an abundance of them of late. Never knowing exactly what to expect of the coming day. Every day is a surprise–some are good–some not so good. This morning, for instance, I was working here on the [...]

Yes, the weather was outstanding this weekend past and it continues to be now that the official work week has started. I don’t have an “official” work week and at first I saw that as a bonus. Lately though I’ve realized how much I work online and how little I’ve tending to things offline. Yesterday, [...]

“We haven’t turned any corners. We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel.” GEN. DAVID H. PETRAEUS, the American commander in Iraq. General Petraeus seems the best American Iraq commander so far. I heard excepts from the speech on NPR. It can’t be easy to be in his position, especially under command(er)-in-chief, [...]

 This is my favourite Post Secret  postcard from this week: It took me a moment to “get it” but when I did, it made me laugh. I live with three males and I have no doubt that in a pinch a scenario like this is quite possible. In other “news,” I got drilled today. My [...]

What piece of advice do you wish you could take? No one really tries to give me advice because frankly, I think they are afraid to as I used to be a bit more prickly than I am now. Not to say that I don’t have my moments even now, but I am older and [...]

What aspect of your personality could use a little work? Aspect–that’s singular, right? Picking one is very hard to do. OK. Let’s get on with it. My tunnel vision. Sometimes this works for me but just as often against me. Maybe it’s more a singular vision–when I am determined to accomplish something of import I [...]

Just took a lovely walk. Temps are up around 30 degrees, the moon through the fluffy clouds is nearly full and has a dream-like quality to it. Then I came home and promptly had a falling out with spouse about younger son missing Scholastic Bowl. Spouse always seems to assume son is guilty and I [...]

EDIT! Michelle, Viewed– in this blog~ 06.26.08 Though we receive both Newsweek and Time magazines in the mail as well as the Chicago Tribune, I rarely read any of them. Instead, I get my news and feature stories from an eclectic mix of sources on the Internet. Today though I noticed a cover story on [...]

In her second conversation with CNN, on Tuesday,  Jessica Baty said Kazmierczak began seeing (a) psychchiatrist shortly after they transferred from NIU to the University of Illinois in Champaign in June 2007. A psychiatrist not familiar with the details of the case said the three-drug combination was not necessarily either unusual or dangerous. “It’s not [...]

My heart felt very heavy today. Last night my big, strapping 15 y.o. son broke down in tears as he recounted taking an Advanced Chemistry exam after a prolonged absence due to the flu mixed with two school snow-closure days and he took it on the same day as two other major exams. There was [...]