I was surprised the other day when listening to the How to build a happy life podcast to hear this sentence: Maturity involves learning not to push love away, either through neglect or through actively pushing love away. Robert Waldinger My first thought was, Why would anyone push love away? But as I thought more … Continue reading Welcome love
From my teen years on, from the first day I learned that intuition was a thing that might exist, I believed fully in it. I have no doubt that we can sense things that aren’t visible, that our gut can guide us, that we can just have a feeling. The problem was, I didn’t know … Continue reading Aging and intuition
There is nothing fun about getting in a pool on a January day. I’m here at the aquatic center along with the regulars who swim while their kids practice with the swim team. I always inch in, starting first by standing on the tile on the edge of the pool, then stepping down to the … Continue reading 5:27am at the aquatic center
“You ate your sausage butts.” “That’s what you say every time.” Last night at the dinner table, my husband made a comment that he apparently makes every time our son eats the round ends of the Italian sausage we serve on spaghetti night. When our son said, “That’s what you say every time,” my husband … Continue reading Repeating ourselves
Clear, liquid gold. Scent of hot peanut oil. Spatter as beer-battered fish strips are dropped in. An eruption of oily froth with each addition, then a settling into furious bubbling around each strip, like caterpillar feet on hot sand. We rarely fry food at home. The kids wanted fish sticks the other night. I moaned. … Continue reading Fried food in my forties
I officially quit on a book last night. Shelved it under DNF (did not finish) on Goodreads, removed it from the homepage of my Nook, and resumed the recurrent task of trying to find something gripping to read. When I was younger, I refused to quit on a book. Even if it bored me to … Continue reading I abandoned a book last night
Butterfly Mind 