I’m currently going through a lot of stuff we have piled in our basement to sell at our neighborhood garage sale, sorting and pricing objects.  $1 for hard-cover books, 50 cents for a paperback.  DVDs, one buck each.  Some of the pricing is easy, and some is mind-numbingly stressful. Let’s take my old martini shaker,…

The alarm blared through my phone and I fumbled for the snooze button in the dark.  My head hurt.  The world was blurry.  Hazy thoughts run through my sleepy brain.  ‘Was that the second time the alarm went off, or the third?  Do I still have time to snooze?  Should I make it a ponytail…

Have you ever been outraged by a game? I was definitely scandalized when I heard about a game once.  Or rather, a series of games … the Hunger Games.  As it turned out, I quite liked the Hunger Games trilogy – I thought the lessons of leadership, perseverance, power, politics, loyalty and identity were strong…

If we work really hard and do everything people ask of us, do people owe us something in return?  Can we count on the support of others when we most need it? Many of us operate under an “if/then” assumption with the way we live our lives.  Some of us even call it karma, though…