No. Did you know that word is a complete sentence? With a period or an exclamation mark, it’s complete. It doesn’t require a but or an apology to follow. It doesn’t require a justification or or an explanation or a ‘I’d love to but I can’t’ before it. And it’s really too tiny of a word
Just a Crazy Girl Blog
Dear you, notice me.
Dear You Reading This, Notice me today please, I implore you. I’m lonely some days. Some days I watch you walk by or see you close and think this is the day, I get my hopes up, but you keep going, rushing by and not even noticing me. Today, maybe today. I’m not going anywhere.
Plow around the stump.
“Life is so much easier when you just plow around the stump.” I read this yesterday on a list of advice from a farmer and loved it! Having grown up on a farm, I thought about my Dad and could almost hear him saying this. We can be plowing along, making pretty straight rows in
Beach Chairs and Pews.
I’m laughing at myself this morning because we are so territorial when it comes to our spots on the beach. Anyone else? We get down there at sunrise and set up in “our” spot (yeah, we’re those people, kind of like having “your” pew at church), we’re all good, got our stuff spread out, all
Book: The Book Thief
I am determined to take chances and read a few books by authors I’ve never heard of. This was my first and I’ve since learned it’s a fairly well-known book and a movie! I live in a bubble. I was not so sure how I felt when I first started it because the author’s writing
Beautiful butterfly.
Do you wake up with people on your heart? I do and some days the list is short and others so long it is painful. Maybe as you read this, someone comes to mind, someone who is hurting and you feel so helpless. I woke up with this on my heart this morning and as
Make sweet the sound.
From the waves in my hair (lawd!) to the waves of the sea, all those gray streaks keep staring back at me. From freckles as uncountable(!) as the sands on the shore, I don’t think my body has a spot for one more. From suntan lines to the lines in my face, time and living
Those Darn Daffodils.
So I want to tell you about something that happened a while back. As I type it, it seems silly today, but at the time it was a big deal for me. My sweetheart and I have a crazy story, go figure. Some of you know parts of it, none of you know all of
Some Days.
SOME DAYS…. I can be the happiest person in the world, life is good and sweet. And in an instant, it all can change, and that’s not the person you meet. I’ll be smiling and content as anyone could be, but inside I’m fighting back tears hoping no one will see.
Letting Go: Fear of Time
I don’t know about you but with each trip around the sun, I learn more and more about things that don’t matter, things I can’t control, and how to face the fears that have been holding me back. Probably at the top of my ‘fear list’ has been time. We can’t control it so why in
Be Like Peanut Butter.
Peanut butter was just not meant to be spread too thin. . . neither are you! When there’s not enough of you, you are short-changing everyone including yourself. When you can’t say no, when you need to feel needed even at the price of exhaustion, when you don’t want to disappoint anyone… you wind up
If I make it to 101.
Things I’m learning… If I live to be 101, it will not be because I was on the computer all hours of the day and night, but because of all hours of the day and night I spent laughing and spending time with myself and those I love. If I live to be 101, it
