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 [...]
Posts under ‘people pleasing’
Good Old Reliable Me
Image credit: Photo by Eva the Weaveron Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I was in high school, some friends and I did a group project for English class where we put on a short play. We needed confetti for one scene, and we all agreed to split the work by each making a little [...]
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 [...]
Never Say "I Don’t Know"
Image credit: Photo byMeredith_Farmer on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons During high school and college, I spent my share of time (like so many other young adults) working in retail. One particular employer had a credo I completely embraced: Never tell a customer, "I don't know." If we employees didn't know the answer to a question, [...]
