I came up with a new philosophy of life - my life anyway.  
I'm trying out this new life philosophy on myself lately (when I remember).

"Try again.  Sooner."

It's not always (or with me, it's usually never) about steady progress, discipline, etc.  Sometimes it's about failure.  And restarting.  But my new philosophy is, rather than beating myself up ( Read more... )

Wouldn't it be great if someone invented.....

Strands of spaghetti with velcro on one end ?  I mean, that twirling technique is all well and good, as far as it goes, but I can never get that last two inches to stay twirled on the fork.  Sometimes, just to play with me, the noodles hang in there until just...that...moment - when they get to my ( Read more... )

Genius Not at Work


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I have lost another Rock in my life.

(This blog entry is going to be a bit disjointed from one paragraph to another.  But it's about grief, and it's my grief, so for once I don't have to care about you and rewriting and editing to make sure it's all seamless for you. Oh, and if you comment, please honor me with using the word “died” and not “passed ( Read more... )

We're Ridiculous - What I learned from a lecture on Church History.

Tonight I was sitting in an hour-long class with a priest teaching about Church History.  Rather a whirlwind tour, if you have to fly us through about 3000 years of history in an hour.  I kept losing my place in the lecture, because he would touch on something, and I'd start to ( Read more... )

Never joke about toilet seats !

That thing they say about Karma biting you in the butt..... It's true !  Freakishly True !  
The Karma's true, the “biting” is true, and the um....location is true !

I just made fun of a FB friend of mine who posted, "how do you know your parents love you?  you're a grownup with your own house but they still show up ( Read more... )

I found this great quote by the illustrious Dr. Seuss today.

“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find
someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them
and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”     ―  Dr. Seuss

This is the first time I'm babysitting my new granddaughter, Makayla.   She's less than 2 months old.   James (my son) has been gone for about 20 minutes max, and already two phone calls.   The first one was about how hot their supposedly microwaveable bowls get, and where the oven mitts are located.   (I have soup slated for my dinner later.)

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Well, my parenting seems to be taking hold, with one son anyway - Petey, the older one, almost 25 now.   Situation:  He's attending a wedding up here tomorrow.   He's flying up from Missouri, and I get to taxi him from the airport, to meet his brother and the new baby, then rush him halfway across the state to a Rehearsal Dinner, and then I get to ( Read more... )

For my friend, Z:

"They laugh at me because I'm different.   I laugh at them because they're all the same."

(Hug)