Culture
They made their bed, let ’em lie in it
This is one of those posts I didn’t want to write. But this refrain keeps going through my head, so this is as good a way as any…
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Tag: stories
Creativity
Write what you want to learn
Many years ago, I trained to become a life coach. I went to conference after conference, took 2 years of tele-classes and put myself “out there” as a…
Culture
If we kiss the friggin’ frog…
I’ve been trying to live the following spiritual truths: once you accept something fully, then it can change know your shadow, and it won’t destroy you kiss a…
Mommess
Intervention
During a rough patch in my life, I had a life-changing experience that I was the last person in the world to get “It.” “It” was an understanding…
Culture
The conversation
This morning my daughter lied to me. Not about anything big, or even particularly important, but the lie was said, then backed up by demonstrations to “prove” its…
Family
Me time = Flea time
I am battling tiny vermin, some imagined, some real. Last week, my elder child came home with a classroom lice notice. That took my already overactive laundry habit…
Mommess
The beach rocks
One of the happiest times of my week is walking the beach with eyes sweeping the sand and rocks. Eight minutes away is a place where my dogs…
Creativity
The Power of Fiction
The tagline of this site is “one paragraph a day, truth or fiction.” In the world of meaning, fiction is often felt more powerfully than truth. Have you…
Best of Mommess
A wake of awakening
I just saw a flyer on the gym wall about what it is like to have a spiritual awakening. It included bullet-pointed promises like “you have unexpected moments…
Body & Health
Waitress tale
When I was engaged, I remember serving a pair of mafia girlfriends and their partners in my section. “What is the difference between a girlfriend and a wife?”…