I've learned that I'm a slow learner.  Making any change is a huge challenge for me.  Thanks to recovery, though, my whole attitude ...

Ignoring problems has an upside and a downside.  The downside is, of course, that ignoring problems doesn't make them go away.  Problem ...

The produce is fresher and lasts longer. The produce doesn't have any pesticides on it. The meat doesn't have growth hormones. Th...

There's something to be said for living into the 7th decade.  I'm a slow learner but I eventually catch on to some stuff.  For examp...

My latest bouquet. Midway at the fair The cops at the fair.  Little pink piggies on top. Better view of the piggies. Tony at the fair My ...

I've probably sat in thousands of meetings with a guy that likes to make the principles of the program into "one-liners."  I l...

Since I have such a limited amount of energy in a day's time now (actually I've always had a limited amount of energy in a day's...

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...