Last week I wrote about the claustrophobic mindset that does not trust that everything will be okay. Trust that I’ll be ok. Trust that I’ll make my mortgage. Trust that I’ll succeed at work or in my marriage. In distrust, a rabbit hole emerges and anything to get out of it is in vain until something else happens. Something to […]
I wake up in the middle of the night. It just happens. Often. I’m forty-nine. Seems to be part of my life at this point. My thoughts get churning. Sometimes it’s first thing in the morning. How will I keep a roof over my head over these next few years? Will I ever see her again? Will my business be […]
Pink Floyd once sang, The lunatic is in my head. For me lately, it’s been The Creep is on my back. Say what? Yes, the creep is on my back. But rewind first… Dude breaks artery in his leg, spends five weeks on his back on a couch, and then BAM! one day gets so angry, nearly violent, he channels all […]
So I had an injury… a major injury… near death experience… near amputation experience… I broke an artery in my leg in a freak accident. Recovery has been brutal. 35 days now and barely walking on crutches. Days and days on end of sitting on my couch. Weeks of barely having enough energy to even answer an email. Sure, I’ve […]
I did the young love in the 20’s thing without kids. I did the mid 30’s with kid. And then I did the mid 40’s thing with older kid. And yes, all with the same person. In all phases of relationship, I know firsthand that an energized and…
