It was early morning on Padre Island and I had already decided to get on the road and make the 6 hour drive home to Houston after ringing in the New Year with one of my oldest and dearest friends on South Padre Island. The weather had not been our best friend this trip, high
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I know…I know, where the hell have I been? Well, I’ve been living life. What you been do’in? I hope you haven’t been waiting on me….or Waiting on the RIGHT time to do something…..or, for the RIGHT person to do it with…..or The RIGHT moment to do whatever the hell you THINK is gonna make you happy.
Every day I wake up is another day full of opportunity to make my life a better place to be. My goal is to have peace and prosperity in every direction I turn. The end result? It’s just a whole hell of a lot easier to live a healthy lifestyle when you are just damn
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It’s Christmas Day and that means the end of the year is creeping closer and closer and 2011 will be coming to an end. I set out 12 months ago to “HAVE THE BEST YEAR EVER” and despite the ups and downs of day to day life and the passing of family and friends, I
This is my favorite picture from my vacation in Hawaii. My final morning when I took my rental car and headed for the Road to Hana. This picture is special. I keep this picture in a frame top box on my coffee table to remind me of what is possible. That final morning I spotted
I never, ever get a cold. EVER!!! But this morning? Aching, sneezing, stuffy head, soar throat. WTF? My mother assured me it was all mental. A stress reaction to finding out my health insurance provider had dumped me three days ago without telling me. Lovely. They …(shhhhh.. .United Healthcare) had told me in July that
There is this incredible moment ….a moment so hard to go back and pin point that you might as well not even try. A moment you just accept as having happened as soon as you become AWARE of it. The AWARENESS comes well after the MOMENT. I sat today as I drove between jobs and
Home is where the heart is. Sometimes that can be a pretty hard address to find. I think today I got a little directional assistance. For years the drive back to see my mom in my hometown always filled me with trepidation. It’s only 45 minutes north. It might as well be 4 hours. I
When you give a homeless man a dollar on the street, you would never expect him to give you a dollar the next day or next year. You gave it because you had it to spare and he had none.You have no expectations of ever seeing that dollar again and you go on with your