Signs of Spring.

It’s coming, I can feel it. I can see it. I can smell it. And I can step in it.
Yeah. Gross.
Everything here is melting, a change of seasons as happens so often in Vermont. The snow gives way to mini-rivers rushing down any inclined surface it can find, until it reaches the Lake. The Lake [...]

Livin’ La Vida Lean.

Wow. I was in a super mood until about ten minutes ago when I balanced my checkbook.
Right before the ole trip to Paris, I was finally on solid financial ground and building up some padding in the savings account. After the trip to Paris, I’m not in the red (GAH! NEVER!), but I’m walking a [...]

Curveball Alley.

Life is like…
Nope, not a box of chocolates. Guess again.
Life is like… a game of dodge-ball. I’ve got work-related, family-related and emotional curve-balls coming at me from every corner and it feels like Dodgeball. The movie, with all of the intensity of Ben Stiller. And I mean the intensity he is portraying for his character, which [...]

Ooof.

When you arrive home at close to 2 am, alive, 4 hours after you left Fairlee, VT in the direction of Burlington, you thank God that your ex-boyfriend taught you how to left-foot brake in a snowstorm.
Scary driving, considering that as the designated minivan driver I was responsible for the lives of the members of [...]

Green Beer. Good Times.

Hey, did you hear?
Winter is coming back tonight. All of the snow melted this week, but tonight, just in time to drive two hours away to Fairlee, VT, we should receive 6-12″ of replacement fluffy white stuff.
 Woot woot! My tears flowed down the street with the melting snow this week as I continue to feel [...]

Beaming.

What a difference a weekend can make.
You can feel spring coming at the speed of light. It’s in the air and that makes me so happy and at the same time, sad. I wasted, well, all of February and its amazing snow conditions being lazy and not going to the mountain. Now that I’ve got [...]

Houston, I have a hater!

I have received my first blog criticism. It was a real stinger of a comment, from “Jonnie:”
“Your weird.”
Uh, ok. You’re a bad speller, so I guess we’re even. Seeing as I’ve only given the link out to my friends, “Jonnie” could be one of two cases; someone I know who doesn’t have the balls to use [...]

Thank You, Crush.

I am telling the world that I am thankful for you. I am thankful for what we had. I am thankful that you are letting me go through all the emotions that this change has brought out of me with space and patience and grace and love. You might not be ready to love but [...]

Captain(ette) Impossible.

I just can’t please myself.
As a general rule, I let myself do whatever I want, whether or not others deem it to be healthy for me. I seek out and listen to other’s opinions, but ultimately, I trust only myself and my own intuition to get me through this life. Lately, though, everytime I think [...]

Get To the But of the Problem.

“But” is a nullifying word.
It doesn’t matter what you say before it, if “but” follows, it isn’t good. It can take all meaning out of the sentence opener and when I hear a “but,” I want to ask why the sentence opener? Why even start out a sentence saying something nice? Only to soften the [...]