Outside Whole Foods - they've obviously gone crazy with the fall stuff. My newest bouquet. Found a place for the fabulous windchime I g...

I really should throw a party.  For six years I've worked on normalizing my sleeping patterns.  I've accepted them, and then not acc...

I'm reading Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance again.  There are daily readings on lifestyle which were life changing at the t...

I'm writing this to remind me when I have a bad case of self-pity and can't remember what to be grateful for, that I have more to be...

Cisco lounging in my bed long past time for him to get up and for me to make the bed. Below Cisco is toasting in the blistering sun in the b...

This saying is not a joke!  Denial kills.  I learned about denial when I was first in recovery.  I didn't have a lot of denial - I knew ...

I've moved on from e.e. cummings to Billy Collins - the poet my friend told me about.  He's a simple guy.  Very accessible.  He wrot...

One of the things I always hoped would happen for me as an adult is to wake up excited about the day.  There were a few times as a child whe...

I attended a meeting last week that was on anger.  I was almost the last one to say anything and the meeting was large so I had a long time ...

Okay.  I've had it with Emily.  She is depressed and cranky.  I'll check with my friend, Karen, who says she has the world's bes...

I've embarked on several "30 day challenges" that are ideas for bumping up quality of life.  I love poetry but rarely read it ...

I can't remember how I ran across Geneen Roth's books.  But the more I read the more I learned.  I don't believe I'm technic...

I started college after I was an adult - almost forty to be exact.  One of my first teachers was a guy with a unique teaching style.  He tau...

I didn't name my cat - he came with that name.  He doesn't answer to it so he probably doesn't regard it as his name.  I call hi...

Pictures of my bouquets followed by a picture of Beverly and a friend whose name I do not know.  Beverly annoys me with how good she constan...

In my recovery program we are taught to pray for God's will and the power to carry it out (and pray for nothing else).  I do that every ...

I really miss being in the habit of taking a picture every day.  That habit helped me look around me every day to find something worth takin...

In Oklahoma when the drought ends, it's not with a gentle rain.  It started on Saturday with high winds, hail and power outages and cont...

I've been watching the stock market go nuts.  Since I don't invest in the stock market because I think it's just about guessing ...

A short, but typically Oklahoma thunderstorm came through just as my friend and I finished eating all we could at Golden Corral (I want to m...