April 15, 2025 Good morning, my friends! In everyone’s life, at some time, momentum slows to a crawl, life stacks up, a sepia-filter seems to overlay everything, and smiling becomes downright exhausting. Mundane . . . uneventful . . . windless and sunless . . . bland. Days on days, limply strung together. In a sense, nothing is out of sorts–I mean, I’m fine! And though I can’t pinpoint what's wrong, something seems to be missing. I feel devoid of pep and purpose. The joy feels zapped out of...

March 15, 2025Good morning, my friends! I love lists! Grocery lists, lists of favorite songs and books, lists of tiny moments that blossomed into favorite memories. . . but making to-do lists is my security-tick. When I feel anxious, I whip out the closest paper, dig out a pen, and vigorously dump my wild brain out into a line of bullet-pointed tasks. Imagine the same intensity that a hyperventilating person sucks air in and out of a paper bag. . . that is what I do with my list-making tick....

February 15, 2025Good morning, my friends! Oh. . . if you had a chance to read last month’s news article . . . here is part two! Haha! Last month, I wrote about the presence of change in the air. In winter, the air becomes so bone dry and highly conductive to static electricity. Have you ever noticed fleece sheets sparkling in the dark with these sudden bursts of energy? It’s pretty neat! But let’s just say that when I wrote last month’s article, I didn’t fully realize just HOW charged the...