Life's a Dance

Did you wonder if I would ever write another blog? I did….for a bit. You know how life just happens and all of the sudden things aren’t the same! That has been my life since fall of 2014. A wonderful man entered my life November 2013….this fall I resigned from being an Apple contractor, remodeled my home, got married, and I have been in the joyous process of combining our stuff, stuff and more stuff! (Men, I do believe you hold on to more stuff than us gals!) Like many, my li

Renovate – restore to a good state of repair, modernize, refurbish, overhaul In his gentle way, he hugged me and said, “Don’t worry honey, I will take care of it” and he did and One morning while reflecting on all that was going on through these different phases of renovation, I remembered a saying “Life imitates art”… The home renovation became a life reflection…revisiting the personal design changes in my own life …considering my past, reviewing mistakes made as well as cel

As adults, new normals have become a way of life from our college days of freedom and flexibility…to structure and independence with the first job…partnership with give and take in a marriage. A new baby completely upsets everyone’s apple cart from parents…to siblings…to grandparents! It takes a family…extended family…and often outside support to come together and help everyone adjust to a new normal. The ebb and flow of life requires flexibility… tweaking… and readjusting to

Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living“… a pretty powerful statement when you consider it. The end of the year seems to be a time of reflection as I get older…I look back on some years  that have appeared bland…insignificant…definitely not a show stopper.  There have been years with no reflection as I just wanted them to go away…disappear and never be considered again. Reflect…ruminate….cogitate…deliberate…what do you usually do?  I don’t cogitate… just sayin

The ebb and flow Suddenly, your world is upended…stress kicks in…all of the sudden in the second, third or fourth quarter of your life, you have to regroup…design a new game plan…maybe rethink retirement. You have watched the news and know many American’s have been going thru this….but it doesn’t hit home until now…Your reaction runs the gamut of feelings…panic…anger…frustration…anxiousness. How do we let ourselves get settled into a routine? We have seen a great change in th

For me reflection begins with laughter at the silly things that have happened…I then move to the losses in life like a friendship that somehow slipped away…or the friends and relatives that passed away…last but never least, come the mistakes…errors in judgement…poor decisions that were made (you know the names we give them screw ups, disasters, mess ups, failures)…. the life experiences that  you and I would like to forget, or redo with a different result. If I stayed in this

1. Resolve to get involved with a charity on a monthly basis. I bet we would see dramatic changes in our communities. 2. Resolve to help others… Can you regularly give to your place of worship for the care of those less fortunate? (we might put a dent in the homeless problem.) 3. Resolve to be civil and courteous to those around you…we don’t have to be first all the time….consider those around you! Wait…practice being patient…relax! This means no road rage. 4. Resolve to brin