Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler. ― Friedrich Nietzsche All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina This week’s photo challenge is “shadowed“, in which we are told: Experimenting with shadows can be…
I was laid off on Wednesday. Outsourced. Bye-bye. 7 years of my life over just like that for myself and my entire team, all of whom had been with me for over 5 years. Whew! There. I finally told it. My former employer left me in good shape, so I have time to thoughtfully look…
You’re invited to a virtual tea time! I’d call it by its real name – PARTY – but in the wisdom of our politicians in this country, the name has been corrupted and I don’t feel like a bunch of landings on this page because people are looking for “the” tea party instead of “a” tea…
“I find that having a day job is one of the best things that in the world that could happen to me,” he once said. “It introduces discipline and regularity into one’s life, I am just as free as I want to be and of course I have nothing to worry about the money.” Wallace…
The calendar on my desk this year is from the book, Women Who Do Too Much by Anne Wilson Schaef (I’ve linked to the 2012 version). I’ve like it much better than I expected. It has a great deal of wisdom, most of it gentle. It’s true, it makes sense, but it doesn’t make me feel guilty…
