Thoughts on Living

Health : 1.       Drink plenty of water. 2.       Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. 3.       Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.. 4.       Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy 5.       Make time to pray. 6.       Play more games 7.       Read more books than you did in 2009 . 8.       Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day 9.       Sleep for 7 hours. 10.    Take...Read Full Story

Dear readers, this post is totally not like the other Mission Impossible Assignment of Holding On. I was positive then. Right now, that is not the case. Yes, this theme is becoming redundant. I am in the dumps. I have been fighting it, but so far, it’s winning. It’s so bad, I don’t even want to get my hair done or shop. I know, oh Horror! I’m so tired. I thought my life was getting better. I’m not saying the problem I have hanging over my head is bigger than God, but I just don’t see how...Read Full Story

I’ve been working very hard trying to learn bookbinding. Trying is the key word. I’m afraid I am not having much success. Every time I think I’ve gotten a technique down, I screw something up the next time I try to do it. I am so frustrated right now. I’m even more frustrated because I was trying to teach Phillise as I’m learning. It is so hard to teach a hotheaded child something. Hmmm…I wonder where she got that from? I’m not sure if I want to teach her anymore. It frustrates me and her...Read Full Story

This weekend I watched (you guessed it) Must Love Dogs starring  Diane Lane & John Cusack. I won’t bore you with the particulars. The part that I want to blog about is when Diane Lane & John’s characters finally go out on a date & he asks her what her story is. “What do you mean?,” she asks. He tells her that people are brutally honest when they first meet each other. The problem begins once you’ve been together for awhile, when you get bogged down with the minutiae of everyday life...Read Full Story

I have a problem, dear readers. A relative of mine who I’ve written about before has struck again. This time in the form of sticky fingers. She stole my husband’s MP3 player. It wasn’t an I-pod, so it wasn’t outrageously expensive, but that’s not the point. The point is that her mother knew the child had an electronic device she didn’t purchase herself. So, she took the MP3 player from the child & “put it away” instead of trying to find out who it belongs to. This was only yesterday that we...Read Full Story