Making friends with Death? Living well, if the Lord will = making friends with death?! Oh, Patti-cakes… Hang with me for a few minutes and I’ll explain. My life has taught me how to accept death. By my count, I’ve cheated death at least three times in my life. As a new (read: young) driver, […]
The Great Commandment
The great commandment in the law. “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.“ Matthew 22: 36–38 Do not hold back your […]
Life is Like Learning How To Drive a Stick
Life is like learning how to drive a stick! Do you know how to drive a stick – a standard? Life is exponentially better driving a stick! I see those of you who don’t, shivering in fear! Once you learn how to drive a stick shift, you learn how to live! I learned in my […]
How To Make Your Life Exponentially Better
How to make your life exponentially better. Anyone think that by chasing happiness, your life is gonna magically turn itself around? That if you could just be happy, dadgumit, your rivers of worries and heartaches would align with the sea and flow effortlessly out of sight, cleansing your life and freeing you to get on […]
Why Is This So Hard?
Why is this so hard? What is this? Life. Life is like learning how to drive a stick. Life is hard, y’all. But why? Why is life hard? Cause, um, we’re breathing and we’re feelers of all the feelings. Yeah, I’m going with that. Oh, my babies – is life popping you in the kisser?! […]
Who Are You and What Do You Do?
I’m obsessed with who it is I am and what is is I do. Are you? It’s my literal business to be deeply aware of what I do, whom I do it for, what folks want and how I can offer them (you!) what is needed and wanted. At my most basic, I’m a teacher. […]
When is it Best to Ignore Internet Wisdom?
I’m about to lay some valuable Internet wisdom on ya – feel free to do you and ignore. You know the commercial about feeling FOMO (fear of missing out)? When you are in search of what it is you need to know, what it is you are desperate to know, ignoring the sage-like gurus, ignoring […]
It’s Not Clever – It’s Pathetic and Lazy
I’m talking about lazy writing, specifically copywriting to drive sales. Specifically, sales for the elderly and infirm like me. Wait. Nope, not like me AT ALL (here comes the pathetic and lazy part) – but since I fall into the Boomer bracket, judging by much of the copy aimed at us, we are doddering, drooling, […]
Salty over Facebook? What Are You Doing About it?
This post was going to be about Facebook bending us over in the trust department and Zuckerberg’s Facebooksplainin’ about how we allowed all they’ve done to us. ~friendly non-threatening face here~ He’s not entirely wrong. We willingly let him in, thereby signing up for our personal Brutification (et tu, Mark?), so it seems childish to… […]
How Do You Narrow “It” Down?
It’s late afternoon, I’m drinking a Corona, listening to the workers next door saw through their 100th piece of wood for the day, trying to put my thoughts together. Thank goodness for Don Henley – the music of wide open spaces and road trips. SHUT THE HELL UP, WORLD! MAMA’S TRYING TO WORK. Yeah. There […]