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A Whole Lotta Squirrelly
“Here lies Jan, the craziest cat lady of them all.” Ahh yes, there was a time when that would have likely been etched on my headstone had I met an early and untimely demise. Throughout my twenties and early thirties I was focused on my job and school. I also seemed to be especially gifted…
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Muchness
“Girl… you are just too much!” I’ve been told that many times in my life. There were times when it was said with great amusement, and there are also times when it was not. No matter the emotion behind it, over the years I have come to understand that there are varying degrees of “much”,…
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You Can’t Wait…
A few days ago I was randomly scrolling through Facebook and came across a clip for an audition on America’s Got Talent. Something told me to click on it instead of scrolling by – okay fine, I admit the caption included the wording “made Simon Cowell cry”. I was intrigued, so I watched it. The…
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#eatdirt… Or Getting Healthy…
I let myself go. There’s no way around it, denying it, or hiding it. Thirteen years ago, I was super active and healthy. I was a runner and a yogi. I also had an occupation (wrangler of tiny humans/early childhood educator if you want to sound professional) that required me to be in a nearly…
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Inside My Human Heart
The heart is a hollow muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the blood vessels to various parts of the body by repeated, rhythmic contractions. That’s the definition that I found on a medical site this afternoon, but I do not completely agree with that. I know, through experience and feeling that my heart is more.…
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Dear Sir… A Reflection
Dear Sir, Never in a million years would I have predicted that such an ordinary beginning would evolve into what is presently so. For so many years, you were simply my friend, and not a particularly close one at that. It’s amazing how much can change in four short months. A little over four months…
Eating Cheese in the Darkness... 