The Hit List: Sincerely, Ben

The Hit List: Sincerely, Ben

  If you’ve been following my blog, you may have been keeping up with my little Ben Franklin side project. For those not in the know, the last few months, I’ve been working through his “Thirteen Virtues”, one month at a time. Ben would practice one a week but I...
The Hit List – Nature hater

The Hit List – Nature hater

“Why don’t you go outside and play?” This wasn’t a plea – it was a passive-aggressive question-slash-command from a harried mother who couldn’t understand the surly little girl who preferred to curl up in the old Morris chairs with a book rather than play kick...
The Hit List – Awkward conversations

The Hit List – Awkward conversations

I was a nosy little girl. The type who listened around corners to hear what the adults were talking about? Guilty as charged. In fact, I was always interested in the adult world and couldn’t wait to grow the heck up so that I could do whatever it was I assumed adults...
The Hit List – Eclipsing

The Hit List – Eclipsing

  This month, we’ve had two eclipses. The first one hit me directly, activating a messy T-square in my astrology chart.  For those of you who don’t speak astrobabble, a T-Square is a hard angle that either pushes you off balance – or pushes you to achieve....
The Hit List – But seriously…

The Hit List – But seriously…

“Why are you always joking around? You’re never serious. I’m sick of it.” said a very exasperated daughter so many years ago.  She was beyond tired of my kidding, my teasing, my devil-may-care attitude. This child was made of the somber stuff and life was a serious...

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