“Don’t think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You’re here. It’s our time and our life, not theirs. Don’t struggle not to be happy. You are.” – Ayn Rand “When you decide you want to join the grown-ups again, let me…

“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. -Mignon McLaughlin The statistics of English are astonishing.  There are over 2,700 languages worlwide and English arguably bears the most complex and richest vocabulary.  The Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 and with another half-million technical and scientific terms, and…

You can bend it and twist it… you can misuse and abuse it… but even God cannot change the truth.” – Michael Levy I’m tired today.  I could crawl in bed, cover my head with the covers and sleep for days.  And not just to rest, but to escape from myself.  My heart is heavy…

Not until we are lost, do we begin to understand ourselves. -Henry David Thoreau I have an annoying habit of getting lost.  I’ve never been good at reading maps and I was a teenager before I knew North, South, East, and West in the city I’d lived most of my life.  Once, when I was…

When I got home from teaching Pilates this morning, the sun was just peeking over the trees in the creek across from my house.  I stood in the door, coffee mug in hand and watched it rise.  My younger daughter was on her way home and she appeared around the corner toddling up to the…

When I left the house tonight to head to the Pilates studio where I teach, the skies were menacing, clouds building and light thunder rumbling in the distance.  I snapped a picture as I drove.  I parked in the back row of the lot and jogged across the mostly empty parking spaces as large raindrops…

“I don’t want to go.” Taylor told me.  It was early Saturday morning and she was pouting at the kitchen table about the Girls on the Run 5K she was scheduled to run that afternoon in Lincoln, a venue roughly an hour from our house. “You signed up, see it through.” I told her simply. …

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” – George Iles When thunderstorms were blowing and the slow grumbling of thunder was building outside the backdoor the other morning, I went room to room closing the open windows.  I could hear the rain begin whipping against the windows that had just been standing…

You will get your heart broken.  You will be disappointed and lost sometimes.  People will leave when all you want is for them to stay.  People will look through you when all you ask is for them to open their eyes.  However undeserved, in these moments you’ll forget yourself.  However temporary, you’ll lose your way. …