How I Met My Soul Mate

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Last year around this time, around this very day in fact, I made a decision that has changed my life each day since. I adopted Wendy. I’d been wanting a dog for nearly a decade, but finally decided to make my lifestyle fit dog ownership rather than wait for it to happen as if by [...]

Hark! This Single Girl Will Love Again

Friday, December 16th, 2011

I’ve been getting a lot of well-meaning, if not entirely necessary, sympathy of late. True, my personal life kind of went the way of UTTER SADNESS earlier this year, but I’m actually okay. When I find my thoughts turning to him and to what happened, I find myself confounded more than anything else. I don’t [...]

Sixth Annual Turkey Day Craft Hour

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

I know, I know. You’ve all been waiting with bated breath, wondering when I’d be hitting “publish” on my Annual Turkey Day Craft post. It’s been a week and still nothing. You thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you? Well, to you I say in no uncertain hyperbolic terms, what is life without a turkey craft?!? And [...]

How Love Slips Away

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Sometimes there are no profound endings, no last words of significance. Sometimes things just fade away. How did we become such strangers? There are no more fights. No more tears. No more raised voices. No more trying. Just sand slipping through your fingers. A break up that wasn’t. How did this happen to us? You’re [...]