Everywhere I turn someone is depressed, someone is angry, someone is crying, someone is down on themselves and life and you name it. I try to be empathetic, encouraging and helpful...does it work? No. It doesn't...not at all. I am either grunted away or "yes butted" out of effectiveness.

Neither does the purely rational approach help: 1) you are not ( Read more... )

You can whine all day about what you don't like about your life, until you hear that someone else has cancer.....AGAIN.  At that moment, you realize that while you may be unhappy, you may have been hurt, you may have known pain; you do not, at this moment, have a problem. You resolve, here and now, for as long as you can, to be grateful for all ( Read more... )

Change: Does anybody like it?  Of course, other people like it.  I'm the one who struggles with it.  I long for it and resist it.  The change never comes how, when and where I want it; that's the problem.  I'm too passive; that's it in a nutshell, that's me.  I refuse to move toward change or cause it for fear that it will be the wrong change....or ( Read more... )

Blue Bell homemade ice cream is not "better than a country smile".  Perhaps, if you are from a country where people don't smile often and are limited to mediocre ice cream, that may be true. I blame myself.  No one forced me to purchase Blue Bell.  I was having one of those desperate moments. If another female finds this blog you will understand. ( Read more... )

Quotidian: common, ordinary, everyday

If you've found your way to this blog, you've happened upon the outlet I have selected to empty my mind of whatever thoughts are bugging, puzzling, amusing or otherwise engaging my brain. I'm hoping it will function like Dumbledore's brain sieve, allowing me to pull thoughts out, examine them, and be rid of them ( Read more... )