Jenaissance

So I haven’t written in 2 weeks and only hours remain until my 5th decade on earth begins. How is this possible? I remember turning 20 (somewhat hazily), but I remember lots of other stuff that happened when I was 20 like it was pretty recent history. I don’t want…

I guess today is the halfway point of my 40 till 40 countdown. 20 days down, 20 to go. I have completed 11 items on the list and many more are in progress. What I’ve been finding is that I have time either to get stuff done or to write…

Dave and I were talking about Syria last weekend and talking about what we could do to take better care of the world. To make it a better place for as many beings as possible. We had a bunch of soil in our front yard that needed (needs) to be…

This past weekend was an extra-long long weekend. Our a/c broke on Friday night, we had 14 cubic feet? meters? (a mountain) of dirt dumped in our front yard on Saturday morning (to fill a retaining wall we built in the backyard, down, way down, hill from the dumped pile),…

It seems like every time I post something light or ‘funny’ on Facebook, or anywhere, something really tragic is happening somewhere in the world that just makes me feel like a total jerk for having been happy or silly that day. One of the points of starting this blog was…

A number of items on my 40 till 40 list are things that have been on my various to do lists for months or years (finish my wedding album, for example) (I’ve been married 8 years). What’s been great about this exercise so far is that it has really helped…

When you are feeling blue, have a case of the mean reds, don’t know what you’re doing with your life, or can’t quite figure out the next step you should take; If you have been eating chocolates and frostbitten ice-cream sandwiches while drinking old wine straight from the bottle;  If you…

ARG. Grumble grumble grumble. I’m so stupid. Word to the wise (do the wise need a word? I’m not sure what that exactly means. If you are giving someone advice then maybe it should be word from the wise? But I’m definitely not wise in at least one regard and…

  Today I made lots of progress towards a few of the items in my 40 till 40 list: I worked on my large ‘inbox’ of random pieces of paper that remind me of various things that I’ve been meaning to do for long periods of time (Item: clear ‘inbox’…