Duchess Digest Wednesday

Today is New Year’s Eve – so before you head out – check out this week’s Duchess Digest Blog on the Single Minded Woman website. I’ve been writing a weekly column there for several months now and I have to say, this week’s article is my favorite I’ve written so far.
So cheers to all of [...]

Two days of ‘08 Remain

Only today and tomorrow left of ‘08 – and this transitional time between Christmas and New Years always gets the wheels turning. I’m starting to like it more and more here in L.A. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it will be my forever home, I miss the mountains and the snow too much. [...]

Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays

Bob: “It looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.”
Peter: “I wouldn’t exactly say I’ve been ‘missing’ it Bob.”
I wouldn’t exactly say that I’ve been “missing” work either. It has been a nice four and half day break from the office. I took Jeff to the airport at 4am this morning and made [...]

Twas the Night before Christmas . . .

And all through the house, I’m sitting here at my computer, using my mouse . . .
Okay, that’s as far as I’m taking the rhyming this evening. Jeff’s flight has been delayed about seven hours, so I’m posting while I wait to hear that he’s getting close to LAX. Winter storms effect us all – [...]

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to you all! This morning is the last scheduled post for the week. I’m putting in a short day at my job and then picking up my little brother for Christmas Eve. I can’t wait!
I’ll be back on Monday – until then I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. This will be [...]

Endorphins make you happy. Happy People just don’t kill their husbands.

Yes, I have returned to the Legally Blond quotes. As I sat bleary eyed and truly grumpy yesterday at work I had a little aha! moment. I say moment because I’m never sure how long these ahas! will last. I thought, “I’m pretty tired of feeling sad and tired.”
“Hmmm . . . go on . [...]

Zero Hours – 6am

Good Morning. I am barely able to focus on the words I’m writing I’m so beat this morning. It took me four attempts before I could log in -I kept hitting commas instead of periods and “N” instead of “M” – and then wondering what was wrong with my account. To top it all off I [...]

The Curious Case of a Movie

Part of my “day job” is working for a company that owns cinemas. And this is Los Angeles after all. So in conjunction with our holiday party, my work arranged an advanced screening of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” yesterday. Now I don’t know how these things work, whether or not we can talk [...]

Four Calling Birds

Walking Betty this morning I heard birds. That may sound like a funny thing to get excited about – but these were real, genuine, songbirds. Not pigeons. And it made me really happy. I felt like I was back out in the forest or nature where you hear birds singing all the time. I don’t [...]

And it’s all just a little bit of history repeating

There is a famous quote that says something like, ”Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it.” So why do we sometimes learn the same lessons over and over? Saying yes to the relationships with people we have already said no to - knowing we’ll regret it again. Or eating the same junk food [...]