I am getting better at saying no, when I mean no, but it's still an area where I have a lot of work to do. Saying "yes" to requests is like a reflex to me. Tap my knee and my foot bounces up, ask me for help and I say, "Yes." Oops. Wait. Let me [...]
Posts under ‘I’ll work harder I’ll do better please love me’
Confessions of a Bad Mother
Image credit: Photo by Jill Greenseth on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have a secret. I have been grieving over my children since, at times, before they were even born. Now that's not the way it's supposed to be, is it? I'm a mama, and mamas are supposed to be joy and love and [...]
Digging Out
This image is copyrighted. All rights reserved. As of this moment, I have a backlog of 283 messages (and 608 Google Alerts) in my e-mail inbox. (Maybe there's one there from you!) So, I've decided that rather than writing today, I'm going to try to dig through at least some of that virtual clutter. While [...]
Updated Blogroll
Image credit: Photo by maher berro on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My blogroll was long overdue for a makeover. As you all know, the rules are: comment regularly and ye shall be put on the blogroll. But oh, what a headache to keep track of all that myself! Enter a neat little piece of [...]
Getting Honest about Blogging
Margaux at Love in the Time of Addiction tagged me with this award/meme by virtue of my (say this in a Wizard of Oz voice, please) scrupulous and honest honesty. I'm supposed to share 10 honest things about myself and then tag 7 others. I usually do these kinds of things in haiku, but I [...]
Climbing the Last Few Steps
Image credit: Photo by Guille. on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have had some mixed feelings recently around the 12 Step work I've been doing. I'm on Step 10 now, and I'm exhausted. And this is not the good kind of exhausted. It's not the "I've just had a great workout and I'm really [...]
Couples Counseling for Everyone (or Not)
Image courtesy of tombstonebuilder.com A few years ago, a friend of mine got a divorce. About a year before the divorce, she took a one year work assignment that involved lots of travel. She and her husband would spend months apart, and the stress of separation caused fractures to appear in all the little weak [...]
Some Administrative Details
Image credit: Photo byquinn.anya on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons Since I am The Overwhelmed, one of the things I've let go is keeping up on the administrative end of blogging. Yep, the world thinks it's all about cranking out the high quality content, but we bloggers know there are links and sidebars to manage. I'm [...]
Eureka! I Think I’ve Got It!
Image credit: Photo byCayusa on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons My brilliant friend Jay at Two Women Blogging suggested a workaround for my dilemma with linking to my work at the Second Road: I could post there and then wait some period of time before reposting the content here with a link. Ah ha! That satisfies [...]
Google Broke Up with Me
You may (or may not) have noticed that my ads disappeared a few weeks ago. Google informed me a little while back that that they determined I posed a "significant risk" to their advertisers and that they were pulling my ads. They wouldn't tell me exactly what this meant (and told me not to contact [...]
