One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

No, this post isn’t a reference to a Paula Abdul song, but rather an example of how I feel sometimes as I try to get a hold of this “being a grown-up” thing. It’s a new year and the now-concluded holidays of Christmas and New Year’s are often a time for major life changes for [...]

Old Versus New

A couple of things happened last week that made me really reconsider a few things I thought I knew: first, I had a bout of writer’s block and couldn’t think of anything decent to write about and second, I took a trip to CA to visit my dad and stepmother. One doesn’t have much to [...]

Unexpected

In the Beatles’ song “Beautiful Boy,” John Lennon sings: “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Today, I was going to write about my blog’s 2-year birthday. Instead, I’m writing about something else. This week, for me, was a crash course in understanding how exactly true that statement is. I’m [...]