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Wisdom in everyday life

  • Day 3

    Mornings are hard. Mornings are never hard for me but I am adjusting to being awake through my regular night time and asleep during my regular day time. Not to mention that it is just as grey here as it was in Minnesota when I left. It’s winter! So I’ll pull myself from my bed… Read more

  • Day 1

    This is the view from my place on a day they said it would rain all day, they didn’t know I was here! I have arrived. I have gone to my first class. I am sitting in my apartment in France frankly in a state of disbelief. Here’s something you might find interesting. Nobody really… Read more

  • It’s a new year!

    It’s a new year and time for a new beginning. The earth celebrated the last day of 2011 and is started on a new year. I think it best we all follow the earth’s lead. The earth moves into a new year while some of the world is deep in its winter sleep and other… Read more

  • Ready, set, go…

    I am going on the biggest adventure of my life. I am so excited and I must say a little afraid. After much deliberation( maybe a few hours) I have decided to go back to France and immerse myself in the language. I have always loved the language and have had a monster desire to… Read more

  • Holiday Cheer

    Born into lower middle class I spent most of childhood poor and my adult life in poverty. As a child we had presents under the tree as my parents did a pretty good job of making us feel like Santa was around and taking care of business. Life was simpler then, fewer needs. Once I… Read more

  • I’m talking to myself!

    Following myself from place to place I am unsettled and searching for who knows what. On a lark I am in Paris because if something didn’t happen to change the stagnation I was feeling I was going to explode, and what a mess that would be. Today I read that Marcel Proust wrote that we… Read more

  • Facing fear!

    I am going to do something I meant to do for my 50th birthday. It was going to be a present for myself. With no significant other if you want presents you buy them for yourself. I deserve it after all is my feeling. But I chickened out! But just a couple of days ago… Read more

  • I am so tired of that.

    It’s Monday. A day that carries no significance to me at all. It’s just another day. I keep this blog just to keep myself going. Where am I going? I have no idea. I am so tired of that. I watch my daughter in law struggle with my grandson upset with herself for a child… Read more

  • Family time and forgiveness.

    I have had a difficult time the last few years and when there is vast change within a human’s life chances are it is affecting every area of your life whether you are aware of it or not. It is not just your life that is thrown into chaos but the life of your entire… Read more

  • Doing “it” anyway

    I have decided in a move to push forward, to restart the engine, make myself do something. One of the things I had promised myself as my life went through this last upheaval was to not do anything until I knew what to do.  As a survivor and born into a family of survivors chaos… Read more