Slowing myself down: Setting in motion the creative forces of the Universe

My day unexpectedly opened up on Monday, and I decided to take a ride to Middlebury VT, (a town we are thinking about moving to) just look around and get a feel for it. It was a fluke of a warm day here (almost 90 degrees) and the drive was like heaven. I arrived in…

The “what ifs”

I went to be Wed. night saying to myself (over and over like a mantra), "The perfect place for us will present itself and it will be even better than I can imagine. I am getting excited to see how this unfolds!". I got up early Thursday morning, checked my emails to see if any…

My beautiful mother

My mother told me yesterday that right before my grandfather died, she entered his hospital room and he said to the nurse at his bedside, "This is my beautiful daughter."  She smiled as she told me this and said, "I never told anyone this story before. It was the only time that my father ever…

A big life

We had a case of fleas last fall. This is no small thing with 6 cats and a big long-haired dog. It took about 3 months of combing them all, many times a day, and treating them to finally get rid of the fleas. What was interesting about that "time of the infestation" is it…