Tag: fear
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Two Sides; Same Coin
She has two speeds–fully on, fully off. When she’s on, she doesn’t sit. Even eating is a challenge with keeping her bum attached to her chair. Containment of any kind is anathema to her. Kolly is just over two, and being quite verbal, she’s quick to tell everyone what she’s feeling and what precisely she’d…
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The Light Will Come
When local meteorologists assume the role of Dougie Downer to let us living in Florida know that this will be a rough hurricane season, the rising winds and darkening clouds make me wonder if IT is coming. We’ve lived through the effects of hurricanes. Gratefully we don’t live on the coast, so we don’t have…
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No Way Out
photo courtesy of Ellen Tanner on Unsplash I’m an impatient person. I can be composed, even patient, with people. But we all have our “stuff” that causes us to be later than expected or unaware of necessary steps we need to take. However, I’m not at all about waiting for elevators, escalators, or anything that…
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The Sweetness Of Solace
From the time we’re little, we need to be comforted. When babies are born, they’re often crying, and being placed on their mother’s chest or cuddled by their dad often calms them as they observe their new circumstances. With the birth of each of my children, they chose different things to be their comforter, like…
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Slither And Slime
photo courtesy of Jan Kopriva on Unsplash I don’t like snakes. I don’t know many people who do. My manly son and sons-in-law loathe them–and they’re not bothered by much. We had an open field near us growing up, and we often found garter snakes there. A few of the boys we were friends with…
Tip of My Iceberg 