Five things I learned in therapy

September 16, 2026
I'm a believer in therapy. Real therapy. With a good therapist. (Not all therapists are good.) Why do I believe in it? Therapy teaches us how to understand the life we're actually living—and how to stop making the same painful mistakes. (If we choose to. Some of us just love to keep the old...

Countdown clock: deuces

September 27, 2010
Email to our petsitter: checkCleaned out refrigerator: checkRan a last load of laundry: checkTook a load of stuff to the new house: checkPlayed with the dogs:...

Cupcake of the day: pink cherries

September 26, 2010
These cute cherry-topped cupcakes are such a work of art, I'd hate to eat them.But I would. (I wonder what the cherries are made of.)These would make such a fabulous...

Church scandal.

September 26, 2010
How long has it been since the latest church scandal? A month?Any kind of church: Catholic. Fundamentalist Christian. Mormon. All of them.The charges against "Bishop"...

Sunday praise

September 26, 2010
Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman Image is Bixby Bridge at Big Sur, my favorite bridge...

Countdown clock: 3 days

September 26, 2010
Totally packed. Yes, it helped that we were in Acqui last year and know what we'll be doing on this week-long retreat. Just odds and ends left to put in the suitcase...

Real, "unenhanced" beauty

September 25, 2010
Elizabeth Taylor was truly the most beautiful woman in the world, and today's artificially put-together women don't hold a candle to what she looked like in her prime.I...

Countdown clock: 4 days

September 25, 2010
Eying the suitcase warily as I talk to myself. It ain't gonna pack itself. This time don't pack too much. For God's sake, don't forget the adaptors. Or passports....

Cupcake of the day ~ K9 confection

September 25, 2010
Any dog lover would dig these cute little themed cupcakes. But they're such a work of art, it would be hard to bite into them!I've also seen cupcakes made specifically...

A new key on our ring

September 24, 2010
A new key was added to our ring today, that to our new home, completely ours.After we were married the first time in 1972, we moved into Florida State University's ...

All the shades of fall

September 24, 2010
It's officially fall and suddenly, the sun's begun to come up later. When did that happen?I sleep longer and better in the now later hours of the predawn darkness and so...

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