Walking Barefoot in Snow

This morning I had the craziest dream unlike any I can remember ever having.  I'm a big nightmare girl, my overactive imagination kicking into high gear as soon as I shut my eyes.  But this dream, I would have expected to have while the evening news was on......you know, when what you are hearing filters it's way into your dream world. I want to remember this, although i'm not sure why.  Maybe because it's just so strange for me. I'm at an outdoor event, in a large city, on the waterfront.  It's a beautiful day and i'm sitting at a table underneath a tent.  I hear an outdoor band playing and I'm teasing my friend "Bones" because he is dressed in a silk suit and flip flops.  (Bones is a biker and silk suits or flip flops are not something he'd EVER be in) I feel a rippling through the crowd and people start pointing and yelling.  I peek out under the tent and see a huge tornado coming toward us but it is still way off in the distance. ...

There’s currently a standoff at my house on who is going to cook dinner. It’s just me and the man so our solution for the past couple of nights has been to go to a diner that is in the next town over.   Problem solved.   Last night my spouse and I were on the verge of having one of “those” talks after several days of biting at each other’s heals and the waitress did a great job of interrupting us at the perfect moments stalling any intense public discussions.   I thought she was very nice and I think we were both grateful for the re-starts she unknowingly supplied for us. I’ve been drowning in an overwhelming feeling of loneliness for the past few weeks, beginning with my 24 year old daughters exit to NYC to live with her friends for the summer.   We’re close, and I miss her intensely even while being very happy for her that she is living her life. (and a pretty cool one at that)   Besides, she’ll return at the end of summer to go back to school and we’ll...

Is it coincidental that the two posts over the past two years have taken place over the summer and here I am again........hopefully with more than one post this year. The problem is that i haven't figured out how I want to use this blog.  In past versions on yahoo 360 (anyone remember THAT?) and multiply (or THAT?) I used blogging as a way to detox through writing.  Every poisonous, noxious thought or happening got spewed onto my blog right along side any happy occurrences and rememberings.  Therapy to be sure, appropriate? Not so sure.  Suffice it to say that there were some readers who were not thrilled when they found themselves in my blog.  Because this is a public forum I have to admit that some things need not to be shared and they are usually the very things that you can't keep inside. So perhaps this time it will not be about verbal vomit. At 45 years of age I am back to taking courses at the University I work for.  Why? Because i love learnin...