Is it?  Or isn't it?  Yes, my sensory apparatus picks up sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touch – but does it pick up everything? Or has my mind trained me to acknowledge some data and discard other data? I know for sure that my reticular activating system discards data contrary to my current bio-DOS (bio-operating... Learn More

Mostly I get fed up with the way other people behave. And if you've been reading very many of my posts lately, you'll know that is my signal that I am fed up with some behavior of my own – like accommodating everyone else's expectations of me. Or better said, my expectations of what others... Learn More

Helping lesbians live as normally as possible while coping with life threatening illnesses – that's their purpose statement, and that's actually what they do. Service from the heart is their stand. Saturday I was the speaker at their monthly meeting, the topic of which was burn out – how do you keep serving those in... Learn More

If a frog is put into very hot water, it will jump out immediately. If a frog is put in normal temperature water, you can turn the heat up degree by degree, and the frog will accommodate to the heat until it is too late. (At least, that's the story – and it serves my... Learn More

Yesterday, I took my granddaughter, Hayleigh, still chronologically 6 years old, to the movies – a celebration for testing for her Yellow Belt in TaeKwonDo. She aced the test. Ceremony on Tuesday. The Smurf movie – how innocuous is that?!  I was regarding this time as Granddaughter/Grandmother time, wanting to make sure it was something... Learn More

For my birthday in June, several friends got together and gifted me with a whole day in a luxurious spa – The Trellis at the Houstonian Hotel, a 5-star establishment known for all the notables it hosts. Wanting to share this experience, I invited my friend Rhonda Schlatter to come too, knowing she was overdue... Learn More