Tag: anxiety
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In Times Of Calm, Storms Still Happen
Our final week of pause saw rain every day. Downpours greeted us with dark clouds scudding across the sky like angry messengers. Winds blew the chimes on the porch into a wild symphony of sound and movement. It made me feel good that it’s been raining back home as well, where the ground in central […]
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What Lies Beneath?
The stump that reminded me of the living tree that once graced our lawn is gone. It’s been ground up, mulched, mutilated. It didn’t go quietly. Because of problems that cropped up with our 25-year-old tree, we had to take it down. Its stump looked sorrowful, a torso without limbs. It has left a bare […]
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The Rubies And Rocks Of Emotions
I’ve always been that person who lives out of the emphatic expression of my emotions. Growing up, Mom would tell me I wore my feelings on my sleeves. When I was little, I’d look for them there and was confused by their nonexistence. I’ve been referred to as a drama queen, an actress with too […]
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Somewhere Under The Rainbow
My neighbor Ed came by the house the other day, urging me to come outside to see something. I was getting ready to go somewhere. My time was limited, but he was graciously insistent. So I followed him outside. I was so glad I did. The sky was looped in a remarkable double rainbow that […]
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The Beet Went On
My friend Kourtney is a busy woman. With a husband and three sons and a job she enjoys, she manages to fill her days moving at near the speed of light. Until she couldn’t. Dashing through the grocery store to pick up food for her family, she rounded the produce aisle of a national store […]
Tip of My Iceberg 