I saw the image to the right on Facebook the other day and 1. did a spit-take and 2. thought, “how appropriate”! Seems like just when things settle down one way, they go wild in another. You will have noticed (maybe… I hope!) that I skipped posting last week. After 3 weekends of too much … Next Level

I happened to see the Lakota prayer I’m posting here in one of my very few 5-minute Facebook breaks this week. It spoke to me because of the way it talks about walking in balance and trusting those inner knowings that are so easily drowned by the hectic pace I’ve been chasing for the past … Trusting Myself

If I thought last week was bad with too much on my plate at work… Could we please rewind to a time when a regular US work week was 40 hours? Or is there someone in Europe who has a job for me at a much-more-humane 32 hours of full-time work? (While we’re visiting dreamland, … Way Too Much

It’s always so nice to have a day off. A holiday for the labor we’ve undertaken over the course of the year. And while I typically have a million things on my to-do list, and think I’ll manage them all with that one extra day of not having to report to the office, I kinda … Long Weekend, Monday is Sunday

I was randomly scrolling through Facebook tonight after turning in my final exam with one minute left on the clock and discovered the quote on the right. Somehow, it just summarizes where I am at the moment rather perfectly: “Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she’s … Pretty Damn Good

You’d think, based on my day job full of scheduling and rescheduling tasks, that I would know about its power in my personal life… It seems the process of adjusting your own attitude takes time, though. This week, I discovered that if I face my homework as medicine and fiction-writing time as the spoonful of … Conquering Myself

I keep talking about writing fiction with these updates. It’s logical: ROW80, after all, does stand for Round of WORDS in 80 days… However, my ability to actually produce fiction these days… not so great. Right now I stand at 1,381. 30 more words than I reported last week. In re-reading what I have, I … Walking the Path

This week the flu bug hit our house. Again. For two people focused on a healthy lifestyle, it feels like I’ve gone through this too often in the past year. I’m blaming it all on stress. Adding this MBA-pursuit to a full plate is not only giving me white hairs, but means my thin margins … What a Headache

After how rough last week was on me, I was glad this week was a little lighter. And I got things DONE. Even though we had the unexpected bonus of seeing Chris Isaak play at Potowatomie for the second year in a row. For a minute, we even thought he might be bringing his autographed … Another Week’s Challenges

Since this week was Nelson Mandela’s birthday (Happy 95th!), there were a lot of good quotes of his floating around the Interwebz. The one I’m featuring today seems particularly apt for the week I’ve just had: “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back … Getting Up Again