This year, there will be no resolutions, no disappointments over broken promises to myself. This year, I am picking a word: a word that expresses my intention, my desire, my focus for this year. This year's word (does that big smiley face give it away?): HAPPINESS. Yep, it's that simple (and difficult). I thought about [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Good Intentions
Last week, as I was contemplating what to do for the random act of kindness that Mantra asked me to perform, I noticed something interesting: I found myself being kinder to everyone. The act of thinking consciously about how I could do some small kindness for a stranger seemed to make opportunities for kindness pop [...]
Thanks to Autistic Adults
Yesterday, I took the kids out to the park to play. As my son was running across the pavement to one of the play structures, he tripped and fell, banging his knee hard on the cement. He got up limping, his face scrunched, as it always is when he is really hurt, into a silent [...]
Clean Slate
"My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals...Zuzu's petals! There they are! Bert, what do you know about that!"~George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life There have been times I've experienced computer problems when I would spend hours and hours cleaning up this and patching that. And at some point I'd find it was just [...]
Peace to You
I am getting ready for Christmas tonight: wrapping the last few presents, getting together the last few ingredients for dinner tomorrow, and putting on a few of my favorite Christmas tunes. And I wanted to pause to say Merry Christmas to those of you who will be celebrating tomorrow. To those of you who don't, [...]
The Official "Associates with Loners" Christmas Theme Song
Do you associate with loners? You're not alone. Let's be independent together!
Santa Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
When my father told me there was no real Santa, I cried, a lot. I didn't cry because I was surprised or felt particularly lied to. I knew long before he told me that there was no Santa, but I wanted to go on living in that fantasy world. I felt betrayed that my parents, [...]
In Which I Begin to Reconsider Santa
I never gave the notion of playing Santa for my kids much thought before the kids themselves arrived on the scene. I just assumed we'd do it, because after all, our parents had done it for us. I had some lovely memories of trying desperately to stay awake, fogging windows with my breath as I [...]
Given that a Truce Has Been Called
Well, given that Christmas and I are on speaking terms this year, Mark and I are going to spend money on a babysitter tonight so that we can go out and spend more money shopping. 'Tis the season for rampant consumerism and all that (and I'm sure the babysitter has folks to buy for too). [...]
In Which Christmas and I Call a Truce
I'm sitting here in the light of the Christmas tree, sated by a day's worth of Christmas cookie snacking, having just danced to Christmas music with my Christmas-obsessed four-year-old daughter. Her excitement and enthusiasm (and maybe the sugar high) have me feeling, at least today, a little less guilty, anxiety-ridden, ambivalent and depressed about Christmas [...]
