Archive for August, 2009

It’s been a year since I’ve lived in this home. It’s been a fantastic and challenging year. The first few months blew by so fast, but I savored them – just as I’m savoring the end of this August.
It’s almost a week until labor day, the official end of the summer season. Kids are already [...]

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What’s the bigger mistake?

I messed up. I had this grand idea about myself, how righteous I am, how clear-thinking and aware. I was wrong. I do stupid things still, despite my knowledge. And these stupid things hurt the people I love, and they hurt me. 
I told a lie. One seemingly small white lie. And it ate me up. [...]

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Finally

I’ve taken a lot of chances recently, put myself out there, taken risks.  And it’s scary doing that, every time I do something I’ve never done before, I get afraid. But I know I have to do it, I have to work through it. The one thing that gives me strength to do these things, [...]

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Love …

I’ve had a lifelong quest to understand love. I’ve learned a lot about what it is not, but so little about about what it actually is. I want to get it down, know it like the back of my hand, know it like the sky is blue. What I do know, I will put here [...]

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