Remember the Charlie Brown cartoons? How an adult was always represented by a disembodied voice that sounded like WAH Wha, wha…? During summer freshman move in weekend, my soon to be a senior daughter and her boyfriend were enjoying a melt from Merv’s (one of life’s true pleasures- if you’re ever in Tallahassee be sure […]
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TBT and What I Know Now
Facebook has started this cute thing lately where it shows a picture from your news feed anywhere from 1-8 years ago with the catchy and captivating tag line: “see your memories”. Here’s one that showed up last week from four years ago: I couldn’t imagine what it would be like when my baby bird flew […]
No Wonder it’s so hard!
It’s Crunch Time! I remember not so fondly this time of year when my kids were trying to decide where to go to college. Along with the usual senior year angst and anxiety about all the impending changes ( mostly mine, not theirs) this indecision was a most unwelcome guest. I think I had the […]
Chardonnay with an Oreo Chaser?
Compare and Despair 2.0 I recently did a morning show in Jacksonville Florida where I discussed this topic that has the power to wreak such havoc on our sense of peace. Since I didn’t get to make all my points I thought it might be worthwhile to reiterate them here: Compare and Despair is what […]