Welcome to July, to [almost] Independence Day, to halfway-to-2017, to the second half of 2016. Welcome to a new day and a new month... ripe with potential. Ready... to start fresh once again. Rabbit, rabbit! * It's time to step out of the shadow of yesterday, yester-season, yesteryear. They're all finished and with them, the doubts and setbacks and flops. Compost them. Blunders and absurdities no ...
Midlife Scrapbook
Bathroom Reading Month
Welcome to the most bibliophilic month of the year. June is National Bathroom Reading Month. I $#%& you not. And I would like to suggest that this thirty day celebration of commodious living is the perfect opportunity to spend some time on the throne with 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed. It's the perfect potty companion! Perhaps even more more perfect than Uncle John's Bathroom ...
Middle Age = Halfway Closer to Dead
Halfway closer to dead?!?! I introduce to you Katie Goodman (@katiegoodman). Comic. Entertainer. Singer. Midlife badass. I think being in your late-40’s makes you a badass. Why? Cuz you’ve gotten over some stuff, you’ve let go of some stuff, and you’ve learned some stuff. You know what your politics are. You know how to demand a raise without getting defensive. You know you might not ever get a ...
Alive Now
"I don't want a never ending life I just want to be alive while I'm here" (Source: "Spirits" by THE STRUMBELLAS) ...
Nothing is Impossible
"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." ~ Deepak Chopra Good morning, friend. I write to you from the downhill side of an amazing week. I'm not coasting, exactly, but it's fair to say that I'm drafting, pulled forward euphorically and almost effortlessly by an achievement that I'm eager to share and celebrate. An achievement that originally felt daunting; an ...
Rabbit, Rabbit
The start of a new day and a new month and a new year. I'd say that today is ripe with potential. Ready for harvest... Welcome to January. It's nice to think about ripening and harvesting in the middle of winter, even if we must summon the metaphor from the tumescent days of September. It's time to start fresh once again. Rabbit, rabbit! ...