Tag: Loneliness
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Strategery – When You Can’t Help but Star Align
Growing up, we seemed to always have some sort of game going: Crazy Eights, Gin Rummy, Battleship, Risk, Stratego, Chess…. it was our family’s primary way of connection… So of course, I learned the art of strategy…of concurrently looking at Plan B, Plan C, Plan D – they make this move, and I make that…
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My Divorce is Final–Now What????
I was talking to a friend the other day whose Divorce just became final. It’s a strange feeling–having that final period at the end of that chapter. You spend all those months or even years wanting it to be over, and then when it’s final, the emotion is more akin to sadness than celebration. And…
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A Binge Watcher, Shopaholic, and a Wino
A Binge Watcher, Shopaholic, and a Wino I know…I know…it sounds like one of those jokes: A Binge Watcher, A Shopaholic, and a Wino walk into a bar…. Lately, I’ve found these coping mechanisms—or rather these distracting, mindless, the-opposite-of-intention facets of my life are bumping into my progress like bumper cars. It’s not that any of these…
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Sand Dunes
It’s getting within striking distance of a year since my divorce was final. How can that be? I blinked and 12 months went by. I look at some of the lessons I’ve learned about myself, and I’m proud of what I accomplished—proud of my courage to examine those places inside me which rarely see light of day….places of…
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Theoden’s Sight
But I’ve done it–I’ve traded something temporary—something to just fill my desire For.A.Moment—traded that little 5-15 minute experience for something of great magnitude. What has a bigger magnitude than my own goals for myself–than the promises I made to myself??
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Weekend Blues
Those two days between Friday and Monday whisper You Are Alone and I feel like I am dog-paddling through Saturday and Sunday just to come up for air and breathe on Monday where I have a schedule, have work, have phone conversations with clients and suppliers.
The Divorced Diva's Guide to Survival 