This summer is killing me.  I love my children but being an introvert means craving large amounts of daily solitude.  Unfortunately, being home all day with the kids means the inability to have a complete thought.  

The moment I think I've settled them into an activity s… Read full post »

This whole Open Salon thing is such a trip.  I originally came here needing to vent after a bad day.  I didn't expect anyone to actually read my blog let alone comment but when someone did I was happily surprised.  

Then a few other people commented on another… Read full post »

The Spirit Within The Trees

The spirit within the trees

calls my name,

With a hollow wind whisper

ringing through my ears.

The spirit within the trees can only be seen by me.

The spirit within the trees

stands up

with his head held high

In… Read full post »

The most complicated relationship in my life is not with my husband or my children or even, more traditionally, with my mother. It is instead with my sister. My older by 2 1/2 years sister.

 When I was born so too was my sister's first lie and many years of guilt… Read full post »

Breakfast:

Cliff Bar; nonfat mocha 

~350 calories

 Lunch:

2 oz of tuna w/ 1 tsp ea of lowfat mayo & relish on 1 piece toast; 1 nectarine

~300 calories 

Snack:

1 mini bag microwave popcorn; 1 c. tomato soup

~2oo calories

The exhilaration of not constantly feeling full & l… Read full post »

When I was young and would go on a diet, I would follow some awful plan of dried toast and grapefruit but now I know better.  Really this just has to be the way I eat I forever and it can be perfectly delicious.  It just has to be less,… Read full post »

Maybe I'll need to thank the brute of a man who called me FAT in the parking lot of Costco.  Something snapped inside me when that happened, something made me face the music so to speak.  I even pulled out my scale from underneath the sink and dared to step upon… Read full post »

Stuck at home with the girls and the roller coaster that is their life.  One moment they're hugging each other and exclaiming their undying love to one another.  The next moment they're slamming doors and posting "keep out" notes on their doors.

 It's pure torture… Read full post »

Crappy Day...wake up call?? Need to make some serious changes. Woke up with a foot so sore I could barely walk.  A broken blood vessel turned my left eye all red.  Got called FAT by a man in the costco parking lot because I told him in no uncertain terms I… Read full post »