I cried last night. I was preparing a picture collage for my aunt’s 90th birthday, and while this in and of itself is cause for celebration, I cried while creating this masterpiece for what it represented beyond a milestone birthday. The pictures did not include images of myself but represented the adult life of my aunt as I remember it. Beautiful pictures, some black and white, some with a person’s head chopped out of the frame, some with family members …
Category: Contemporary Women
Yes, dear readers, you heard that right. After close to twenty years of coloring and styling my hair, my hairdresser made me cry. I have sat in her chair countless times for many occasions; monthly cut and color, graduations, just-because-it’s-a-Friday blowouts. But never before has my hairdresser made me cry. Truth be told, it was not her fault. I brought a bunch of baggage with me to the salon that day. I was sitting on a time bomb of emotions, …
I am a gym rat, through and through. I am all in for the endorphin rush, the building of muscle mass and bone density, especially at my age. And, I thrive on the competition within myself as I strive to be better, faster, stronger. Typically, I go about my workout quietly, albeit sweaty, just minding my own business. In my mind, I am keeping up with the 40-somethings at the gym…until I realized, in fact, I am not. The realization …
I have failed at several things in my life: making the cheerleading squad in high school, playing the political game in jobs I held early in my career, my marriage, to name a few. But, I have to say, I have never felt more disappointed in myself than in my efforts to attempt Dry January this year. Epic failure. Like, barely made it out of the gate, fell flat on my face failure. I am the poster child for How …
What’s up with the sports bra? To be more specific, what’s up with the sports bra appearing here, there, and everywhere? For example, women at the gym wear sports bras. Yet somehow, currently it is En vogue to wear the sports bra alone, not underneath a shirt as this writer believes was originally intended. Oh, the scandal! So, how should women wear a sports bra to the gym today? Or rather, how is it being worn today? Let me clarify. …
A funny thing happened on my way to the mall. Well, truthfully, it all unfolded when I actually got into the mall, but I was harboring my angst the entire 7.5-mile drive. I am not sure what I was most anxious about, parking, shopping, or the entire outing. But I persevered and ended up with a story. First, I do not make a habit of going to the mall unless out of real necessity. So for me to meander to …
(Conversations, Confessions, and Conundrums with Scout) I see words. Kind of like the boy in the movie The Sixth Sense, only he saw dead people. Instead, my gift is this: I see words. In the form of sentences that take on meaning that become stories. My stories. Observations. Of what I do, where I go, what I experience. For inexplicable reasons, they never seem to stop but just keep coming. Ferociously, feverishly, constantly. It is a good thing, right? Or …
Normally I am not one to rant or stand on my soap box spewing forth opinions about hot topics in the news and in our news feeds. But after several sightings and close encounters, I became undone. Today I am unleashing my rant: Wear the Mask. Follow the rules, people. No one is above this pandemic, so follow the dang rules. And by rules, I mean, “WEAR THE MASK.” You literally must be living in a cave not to see …
While it feels as if the summer got off to an earlier start due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are no complaints from my world. A quicker start to sunny days simply meant more time for beach reading! In reality, my ‘summer’ reading began back in April when we all found ourselves at home with extra time to indulge in some guilty pleasure reading. One of the perks to emerge from our quarantined months. Thus, the flow into actual summertime …
I am the voice for those who are silenced I am the voice for those less spoken Just listen Please We have something to say A reason to be heard So listen And we will be heard We have something to say A reason to speak So listen Closely It's a shout from afar A cry from abroad A sigh from within We. Have. Something. To. Say. So listen Gently We have something to say So listen...softly And we will …
