Oh, The Thinks She Can Think!
As I was driving my six-year old daughter to school one morning, I told her how anxious I was about another weekend without her. I’m a weekend orphan, as she spends weekends with her dad. With wisdom...
View ArticleTalking Scales: The Truth Does Set You Free
If you have poor eyesight and challenged computing skills, it is time to bring out the talking scale from Target. It is perfectly alright to admit that your eyesight is not what it used to be, or that...
View ArticleMarking My Calendar: How I Make Time My Friend
My daughter asked me yesterday about what superpower I’d like to have. Without batting an eyelash, I told her I wanted to have the power to stop time. She gave me a puzzled look, as I think she...
View ArticleReconstruction of a Broken Heart
It’s all that asteroid’s fault- you know, the one that hit the earth billions of years and wiped out the dinosaurs from the face of the earth. If it weren’t for that asteroid, human beings would never...
View ArticleThe Skinny on My Skin
Have you ever dreamed of walking on the moon? Probably the closest you can get to doing a Neil Armstrong is by looking at my face. With all its uneven terrain and bumpy irregularities, my facial skin...
View ArticleTime vs. Me: My Battle Against Time
This is the age of technological advancement. With the click of a button or the swipe of a monitor, we are able to do stuff which we only previously imagined. You can talk with an ex-flame from...
View ArticleChasing Happiness
Belinda Carlisle almost had me fooled. I nearly believed her when she said that “heaven is a place on earth”. If that’s so, then why haven’t I found it? I’ve searched high and low for it, but my...
View ArticleMy Perspective Project: Changing How I View Life
What do nicely embroidered tablecloths and the Dr. Phil show have in common? They’re not at all related, but those were the two things which kept me smiling during my pregnancy (years ago!). One of...
View ArticleFrom Here to Nowhere
For the past couple of days, I noticed that I find it extremely difficult to get out of bed in the morning. When I try to get up, it feels like I’m dragging a ton of bricks uphill. My spirit just...
View ArticleMy Perspective Project: I’m Having a Good Hair Day
If I got paid a penny for every time I said those words, I’d probably have only enough to buy me a burger from the local diner. But today is definitely one of those days when my hair seems to...
View ArticleHow Simple Activities Like Picnics can Improve Your Mood
If you’re suffering from depression, a mood disorder, or have a very stressful job, all of these conditions require you to pay special attention to yourself and find ways to relieve anxiety and stress....
View ArticleSmells Like Regret- Almost!
My seven-year old daughter learned a new word yesterday: despondent. When she asked me how I was feeling when I got up from bed that morning, that’s the quick answer I gave her. I told her that meant...
View ArticleMy Secret Dream: From Hair to Eternity
It was a lazy and lonesome Saturday when I found myself chatting with my aunt on Facebook. She’s been living in the US for years now, also as a single mom. That was the first time she opened up to me...
View ArticleWhen Thoughts Shift to a Career Shift…
Too much of anything is bad. I relearned that life lesson today, as I feel I’ve had way too much coffee this morning. I’m starting to feel a bit more jittery than usual, that the shakes are surely...
View ArticleA Summerrific Summer: Fun Times With My Daughter
Image courtesy of Michelle Meiklejohn / FreeDigitalPhotos.net In this part of the globe, at this time of year, the sun is king. Kids- and adults- all over are chanting Bugs Bunny’s infamous “No more...
View ArticleMy Childhood Lawn: Memoirs of Heaven Lost
Spring has sprung. It feels so good just saying that, as this is the season which brings hope for new things. Hope is something I am in desperate need of right now. Things have seemed to hit a blank...
View Article50 Shades of Lingerie
Insecurity attacks even the most confident among us. It’s that double-edged sword which pierces through our self-esteem and leaves us unmotivated to do most anything. There are days when we feel we...
View ArticleThe Emotional Detox: I Cleanse, Therefore I Am
One particular childhood experience which I don’t intend to relive is deworming. It was crazy but had to be done. These days, I have been putting myself through a different kind of purging. It’s an...
View ArticleMe vs. Me: How to Stop Battling With Ourselves
You are your worst critic. I know I am mine. Not a day goes by that I don’t engage myself in intermittent self-berating sessions whenever I fail at something. No matter how trivial the mistake, I...
View ArticleMidday Musings
Blank My mind is blank Can this pass as poetry? I seriously doubt that. My mind is blank, but at the same time, a million things are going around in my head. Talk about irony! A swirl of emotions...
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