I miss my wife. I miss talking to her everyday. I miss walking the dog with her before dinner. I miss eating dinner with her. I miss her smile and her laugh. I miss making her coffee. I miss how her hair smelled. I miss knowing she was always there.
Don’t Tell Me You Love Me
When my former sister-in-law used to say goodbye to me, her last words would be “I love you.” When I was part of a self-help group, some members would tell me they loved me. Even today, when I listen anonymously to podcasts and watch YouTube videos, the creators often sign off by saying “I love…
Stop Digging
The first step to getting out of a hole is to stop digging. It sounds obvious, but when I’m up to my knees in it, I often keep digging. My most recent experience is with my shoulder injury. I injured my shoulder attempting to do an exercise that looked “easy” and I thought I “should…
You’re An Employee – Not The Owner
With the recent labor shortages and post/in pandemic worker shortages, employees have been leaving jobs, demanding higher salaries and better benefits and opting out of work altogether. I predict this won’t last long. After all, the poor always get screwed over. Here’s what I think will happen: Some business will close down because they cannot…
Roid Rage
Well that didn’t last long. After feeling like I could run through a brick wall for the first two days of taking prednisone to unblock my Eustachian tube, I crashed. Those first two days, I felt fantastic! I was energetic. My dizziness subsided. My energy was through the roof. Even my sore shoulder felt better….
Real Problems
You should always be working on a project, otherwise your mind is going to make up problems for you to worry about. Seventeen years ago, my therapist said this to me when I asked why I couldn’t stop worrying about all the potentially bad things that could happen in the future. He was 100% right….
Logistically Speaking
My grocery store has had shortages lately in the meat department. Prices at the gas pump have risen from under $2/gallon to over $3. The news reports that product delivery is backed up in our ports, across the country and globally. The city swimming pools have been running reduced hours due to lifeguard shortages. Many…
Freedom From Speculation
People are really good at predicting the past and quite horrible at predicting the future, which is why I make a conscious effort to avoid speculation from myself and from others. Once you start listening for speculation, you’ll hear it everywhere. Reporters, politicians and pundits do it all the time. In fact, it is their…
Unafraid
When I was talking to my mother about waking up to the room spinning and it continuing for several days, she said, “That must have been very frightening.” Nope. I am almost never frightened of anything anymore. I was angry. I was frustrated. I wanted to run away. I wished I was just dead already….
No Way HOA
My 86 year old neighbor tried to recruit me to volunteer as a Board Member for our HOA. She said I was honest and had integrity and that’s what the Board needed. I thanked her but said I wasn’t interested. So then she turned up the sales pressure. When I was out walking Wiggles, she…