I'm in the process of trying to decide how I want to handle the election season.  Last time I chose to just watch one television program...

I've decided that it's no longer necessary for me to be shocked and amazed when I hear about somebody doing something clearly nuts. ...

I keep learning new stuff.  Scientists are learning more about how our brains and nervous systems work every year and I'm fascinated.  E...

For most of my adult life I worked twelve to sixteen hours a day.  Some of it was my job. The rest was upkeep on my home and yard, child car...

It worries me a lot when religious people quote the Bible as instructions for judging people.  Over the years I've heard verses quoted (...

I was and still am in some ways what I would call a sensitive person.  My sense of hearing, smell, touch and taste were all very sharp and I...

One of the first things I realized when my mentors started to teach me how to recover was that they were telling me in a kindly way that it ...

There's so much to know to have a happy life.  And at my advanced age I've noticed that a whole lot of us never got the instructions...

For those of us who have the responsibility for home care, the weight of it sometimes can feel crushing. Carrying around a crushing weight d...

It took me a long time but after years and years I finally noticed that I had a long list of problems that I had never solved.  I complained...

Dear God, I was stuck with the dishes from the time I was seven and I was an incompetent dishwasher.  I never really finished and there we...

Dear God, I'm awfully lazy.  I spent most of my life cooking for other people.  It was an obligation.  It never even occurred to me to...

Dear God, I don't like going to the grocery store.  It seems like such a hard chore.  May I remember that gathering food is honoring y...

Dear God, Please guide my thoughts and desires as I list the items to buy at the grocery store.  I hope you will help me remember to selec...

I just 'googled' ceremonies and rituals for food and eating and nothing came up except descriptions of ways food is used in religiou...

I always thought surrender was a bad thing.  It meant I had lost and was a loser.  It meant that I was just stuck in my helplessness and wou...

When I started moving from feeling helpless to solve problems to living in solutions, it felt like a whole new planet and a whole new life. ...

For so much of my adult life I lived with what I thought were unsolvable problems.  That's a hellish way to live.  After I came into rec...

I've learned that taking a good look at what's causing my stomach to knot up is a terrific idea even if it's a little unpleasant...

I used to have an on-going source of misery in trying to figure out what to wear.  I was 100% unhappy with my clothes 100% of the time.  I w...