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Cherishing this moment

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Do you ever spend time alone? I do not. My life is super busy at work with a lot of people. Then I go teach college and then I come home to my family, visit for a little while then go to bed and start the excitement for another day. I have no regrets and I certainly won’t dare complain. I chose this life. I love this life. My family accepts and helps me live this live to provide for us. I am blessed and feel quite challenged and rewarded. Right now, though, on a few days vacation, as I write on a Sunday night with the Pacific Ocean breaking in the near distance I am alone and feel unsettled by that. This is such a wonderful place I want to share with a dear one. That dear one arrives in the morning. (My friend since 2nd grade for our long awaited birthday get-a-way.) So now I sit, listening to Lauren Daigle (‘ Everything ’ is such a special song from a voice with great strength and heart.) telling myself to sit still and watch the sunset before me. My mind is not racing. I feel guilty...
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No more settling for feeling bad

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Today I feel great! I can sit up straight. I can walk standing tall. I’m smiling. I’m laughing. I’m joking with my co-workers. The other day was a totally different story. I still anchored 5 hours of live news. I still interviewed people live on the air. I still adlibbed about breaking news. But, I could barely sit up straight. I couldn’t walk well. At times, I could barely breathe. The shooting knife-like pains ran from my diaphragm down through my intestines. It was so intense, and familiar. I’ve lived with these pains for over 30 years. But somehow, they felt much more intense this time. You see, these pains disappeared 18 months ago when I gave up gluten. Gone, along with pounding headaches. So, what happened the other day? Well, the common word is ‘contamination.’ I must have eaten something that was tainted with gluten and since I’ve been ‘clean’ for so long it affected me - hard. I’m not sharing this to whine, or to ask for sympathy. I’m sharing this because when we feel...
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Is this really your best presentation?!

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What is your point here? What’s your purpose?   Why are you posting selfies like this?   I am really getting bothered by all of the photos (many of them are selfies) that women are posting of themselves in skin tight to limited clothing. Their social media profile says “News Anchor” or even “Award Winning Journalist”   and they’re showing side boob, bare stomachs, full-on cleavage, pushing out their behind in a skin tight dress. And, the way they’re standing, squatting, laying or leaning. What is this!? I feel like if we women want to be taken seriously, we should take ourselves seriously.   Am I sounding like one of those ‘old’ ladies now?  
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How #MeToo is bringing up memories

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I just watched the latest Murphy Brown about sexual harassment at work and the #MeToo movement. It resonated. Murphy and Phyllis talked about ‘the way it was back then.’ Now, they may be older than me, but we’re still in the same era when there were more men in the newsroom than women. We wore our ‘IBM - style’ navy business suits with silk “LA Law’ high necked blouses, nylons and high heeled pumps. I suppose that can be considered sexy but I never felt sexy. I was trying to fit into a man’s world and earn respect for my work, not my legs.   There were things said, many times that I graciously smiled at and tried to quickly move on from.   One colleague, who was set up to be a mentor of mine, invited me up to his hotel room telling me it’s OK - he and his wife had an ‘open’ marriage. He said if we worked together he could get me in to the bigger market (my dream market) where he worked. He never touched me, though he sat uncomfortably close to me. I said no and l...
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If at first you don't succeed ....

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Keep trying. Start over. Don’t beat yourself up. Move forward. Find a new way. Think logically. Try something new. Re-evaluate your schedule.                I’m pressing the reset button. There are ebbs and flows in all of our lives when Balance is a good friend standing by your side. And then, there are times when Balance appears to be on a far away vacation.                 I need to take better care of myself. I’d admit, I’m missing my friend, Balance.   Our time apart started with a “Just for this one moment, for this schedule change. Just give me a little time and we’ll get back together.”   Well, that was about two months ago.                 I can feel it.   So, I’m recalculating - my morning routine, my eating habits, my exercise.   It’s exciting. It’s daunting. But here’s the thing.   Feeling bad is not OK. Ever....
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The pile of stuff we put off

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Do you have a pile of stuff that you keep adding to? It’s the pile that requires time. It requires your heart and mind to be ready. It’s the retirement information pile. Added to it, the kids savings pile. YOUR savings pile. Doctors office reminder letters for   appointments you need to make. Right here is mine saying it’s time to schedule my mammogram. For crying out loud! I just did the colonoscopy! That took me YEARS to finally schedule.   Well, I’m going through the pile today. I found out I have a new retirement account to which I’ve not named my husband as beneficiary. Oops.   I found out I have savings coming to me from an organization’s membership I didn’t realize. And, I found out both of my jobs offer a college savings plan. I just need to ask about it. Here I am feeling a little squirrelly about paying for the SECOND year of college and I now more resources at my fingertips. Oh, and some quarterly statements shared good news. See, opening these things is...
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And yet, I smile

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Do you feel like the world has just lost its mind? It seems everywhere we turn something is happening or someone is saying something that gives us pause, makes us shake our head and wonder. Where’s the decency gone? Where’s the Golden Rule gone? It’s not all politics. It happens in the grocery store line. It happens in the workplace. It happens in the classroom - all different kinds of disappointment. Sometimes I get mad and vent loudly to my family. Sometimes I just blast the music in my car to clear out the clutter in my brain so I’m renewed. Sometimes I laugh because I’m truly befuddled by people.   I’m determined to not follow suit. I’m determined to be a good example - or atleast try to be. And no matter how some say (actually a growing number of people) we are creating our demise, I can’t help but quote a character from a favorite TV show of mine. This character, King Ezekiel in “The Walking Dead,” says something I’m now saying and doing. When I’m touched by disappoint...
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