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” »


April 14

Rule:  Immediately freeze doggie bags. Why:  Otherwise I feel pressured to finish them up before they spoil, ending up with “Saturday night” dinners as weekday meal options or worse, late night snacks.  Combined with a salad or some veggies, they […]

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April 13

Finding the place right before “I don’t care” is critical.  It is specific to me and it is a bit of a moving target.  It is easier to cross that line when I am tired or stressed, for instance, or […]

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April 12

Maybe I don’t really want the responsibility of knowing that I could fix it.  Many is the time that once I forced myself to looked at the number – albeit later after I had starved it off – I found […]

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April 11

One of the things I see all the time in my practice all the time is people truly intending to pay the bills, but never completely paying up.  They are often baffled by the weight they are carrying. They slowly […]

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April 10

If the debt can be cancelled, it needn’t be a catalyst for another lost week.  I remember when “looking” prompted me to formulate a concrete plan for the rest of the day that would allow me to balance it with […]

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April 9

Guilt comes from the same part of my brain that the emotionally driven eating does.  Einstein says something along the lines of, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that conceived the problem”, or words to that effect.  […]

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