Happy Groundhog’s Day

January is over. Well, almost. Groundhog’s Day is on Saturday. That’s a nice, mystical day. I did a quick study online on the history of the day and was amused to find it was celebrated long before there was a groundhog with the cumbersome nomer of “Puxatawny Phil” attached to him. That comforts me: I [...]

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Spring Cleaning

Well, probably not “Spring” cleaning as it is the dead of the winter, but… I have been in a funk lately and trying to motivate myself to do something, anything, has been – well, next to impossible. I start, but I get overwhelmed at the idea of having to do the thing and I can’t [...]

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Highly Sensitive Person Part 2

I feel great about the little five minute speech I gave this morning on HSPs. I shared what some of our traits are, made a couple jokes, got people smiling, and – best of all – helped at least three people discover they, too, are HSPs. I also ended up loaning out my book by [...]

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Highly Sensitive People

I am putting together a short speech for the office meeting and my chosen subject is how I discovered I am an HSP. I still remember it vividly. I was blind-sided by the moment.
When I turned 13, my family moved from the town I’d spent most of my childhood in to a completely new town. [...]

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Desert Blues

When I was a teen, my family came to Oregon for summer vacation. We stayed a week in Seaside or wandering along the coast. My sister and I were fascinated by the slugs: we didn’t have slugs in Nevada, let alone those huge yellow banana slugs or the blacks ones or – well, shoot: we [...]

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Rattlesnakes

Putting together a presentation for work and trying to research my favorite hot spots in Oregon has been a … challenge. I was going to say “nightmare”, but that isn’t exactly true: some of it has been fun, like perusing the photos I want to use. Ah, memories.
I’ve prayed over this and I feel certain [...]

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