Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


May 7

It still so astounds me that I am able to live my life doing many of the things that I thought were utterly impossible for me.  Silly as it may sound, I am often choked up at the end of […]

read more

May 6

The more I have practiced avoiding, not surprisingly, the better I have gotten at it.    When I practice saying no, “no” gets easier (which would be good if I were talking about not eating bagels at my office meeting).  When […]

read more

May 5

It’s like that with lots of things; like playing the piano for instance.  I didn’t have to be born a natural Mozart to play the piano.  I would have to practice.  Weight management too.  I believe that I was born […]

read more

May 4

It took me about 10 years of discussing exercising and of course buying all the equipment for the various sports I was going to ( in the future – not actually today of course) take up.  Eventually I was embarrassed […]

read more

May 3

Strategy:  Hope for my best self, but plan for my worst self. Why:  If I have over protected myself, what have I lost?  But if I have under protected myself, then what have I lost?  Or gained, as the case […]

read more

May 2

Strategy:  Always locate the Starbucks.  It is programmed into my GPS as we speak. Why:  My ritual afternoon coffee (cappuccino in Italy) has saved me from many the inappropriate afternoon snack, especially on vacation.  It has a predictable sister rule […]

read more