Ingratitude or IN Gratitude?

It never occurred to me that the blog name or website would be looked at as Ingratitude. HA! Silly redhead.

I think about you all the time

…but do I do anything about it? Rarely! Regularly something pops into my head that I think you’d like to talk about. Whether it’s political, art-borne or stupid people things, constantly popping up like whack-a-mole. And I think, I will remember this one or let me send myself a text… But then I am called …

To Be New – Stay Woke

“I’m requiring a different level of consciousness of myself doing something very ordinary. I define that as a state of being more aware, being more awake to the reality I likely do not pay that much attention to on any given day. In today’s vernacular, I’m trying to be live woke.”

What Will I Need When I’m Old?

My mom is 78 and lives with my husband and me. She is almost independent – but has some physical issues (COPD and peripheral neuropathy primarily) that makes living with us is better for her (and my peace of mind) than her living alone. She struggles with things that continue to surprise to me. I …

Well that was certainly a full month, no?

So many half-truths and frauds have received the Good ‘Ole USA Housekeeping seal of Approval, when in truth, most of us couldn’t map out the road from the inauguration to the tariffs or from Fake News to Jarrod’s Middle East Peace Plan.

A Different Kind of Merry-Go-Round

In Oprah’s voice…If you’re a fatty and you know it, pay me now! The day it was announced that Oprah had purchased Weight Watchers (or as it’s now known, the ever trendy “WW”) I had a tantrum.  She knows it doesn’t work…she knows the diet mentality is more harmful than helpful…she knows because she has …

Spiritual Sandpaper

And all those other days, Charlie Brown, we will fight or celebrate or mourn or laugh or despair or hope – but we will live. Spiritual sandpaper is a term I learned from a woman named Linda (not changing the name to protect the innocent – ’cause there aren’t any, in this case). There are …

Testing 1, 2…Testing 1…

Very exciting – and  a little overwhelming. I decided I had just better stop all the planning and start typing before I forgot what I was doing all of this crazy research and formatting, font picking and page layout for! I don’t remember who said, “just pick a theme and go…” but I feel like …