If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks, then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.- Zora Neale Hurston In my situation, what was misunderstood was my intention. But intention – or more accurately, the correct interpretation of intention – is subject to personal filters, attitudes, sense of self-worth...

If Oldest Son (fyi: 20 yrs old) doesn’t start showing some true initiative about getting a job, I’m going to come un-F*CKING-done. He’s got such a negative self-concept and world view, and it’s making him such a freeloader. AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! (Thank you – I really needed that!) Every time I ask him about what he’s doing...

And whinge I will! Maybe you are asking, “What’s whinge?” Well. let me tell you a little story before we get to why my rack is too big…and for what. While catching up with ImBeingHeldHostage this evening, I came across a word I didn’t know, had never seen before, and could not, for the life of me, figure out how to pronounce. The word...

Ok, it’s a Monday, for real. I contemplated whether I should sub today and finally ended up accepting a job at the middle school. Between first and second hour, my cell phone rings. I open it up to see who is calling and at just that moment, I drop it. It breaks into two pieces (as flip phones tend to do when dropped) which go flying in two different...

I’m trying out a new piece of software today. You see, I have always been admonished to keep a journal, and over the years, I have made several attempts, but they were all short-lived, for one reason or another. Since the advent of blogging, I thought I’d finally be consistent with journaling – but alas – I’m not. There are some things...

…I may explode. It truly is a great song, one which I, had today not occurred, might have played over and over again, myself. Now I know what my mother was complaining about when I was a teenager. I used to do the same thing. I’d put the speakers from the stereo on the floor facing each other about 2 feet apart and then lay down with my head in between...

There are not that many things that make me come unglued these days, and for that, I am thankful. Coming unglued is not something I enjoy doing – it takes entirely too much energy which could be used more constructively elsewhere, and it usually ends badly. Plus, it sets a bad example and teaches the wrong lesson if overdone. Well, as I may have mentioned,...

Neither did I. He WAS in it, but the camera panned so quickly through the group, we didn’t actually see HIM. This is Spy Nephew who lives in Maryland and is 16 (son of Spy Sister – “Spy” because both my sister and her husband work for the NSA and can’t talk about their jobs – for real. We call them SPYS-R-US, collectively.) He...

Aside from being culturally advanced, Oklahoma also has another unique characteristic: it’s volatile weather. For example, we had a high of 80 degrees yesterday afternoon, and the temperature has done nothing but drop since. Our low tonight is predicted to be 28 degrees. We have many days during the winter when we wake up to the high for the day. Why? Well,...

…which is a colloquial way of saying, “Kiss my ass.” (Intimating that the ass you’re invited to kiss is either very large, or you’re welcome to kiss as much of it as you like.) Yes, I actually had someone say it to me in just that fashion today. But then, I do live in the culturally advanced state of Oklahoma. (Go ahead and take a...