“He’ll always need your love/And so he’ll get your love./A man who needs your love/Can be wonderful.”

I was watching The King and I the other night and this song, Something Wonderful, gets in my head like no other.  I sang along with it, I hummed it in the shower, and wandered around singing it as I cleaned up after myself later that night.  I love this song.  I think it’s absolutely [...]

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“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” ~Fran Lebowitz

When I was younger, I had complete confidence in my intelligence and my ability to hold an intelligent conversation.  For many years, I related more to adults than I did to kids my own age.  I loved having discussions about things I just learned in school and then learning even more about them within the [...]

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It’s not about perfection

Recently, a friend of mine has made a major life decision to leave her husband.  There had been problems for a while, and she said she knew it was never going to work out, but it wasn’t until she met someone else that she decided to take the major step of divorce. Listening to her [...]

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“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.” ~Jane Austen

One of the most frustrating arguments the husband and I constantly have is about my opinion of perfectly nice people. Nice is probably one of the worst things I can say about someone, mostly because it means that ‘nice’ is the only generic descriptor I can come up with.  To be nice is to offend [...]

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“My friends from high school/married their high school boyfriends./Moved into houses/in the same zip code where their parents lived./But I, I could never follow.” ~ Dixie Chicks

Yes, I’m quoting a Dixie Chicks song. Because A) I love them and B) trust me, the quote is relevant to my life. I struggle with my past so much.  I struggle with how my experience at the private, all-girls, Catholic high school felt like  spending 4 years as a fish out of water, and [...]

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“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” – Thomas Jefferson

Confession time: I am terrible with current events. TERRIBLE! I honestly can’t remember the last time I opened up a paper and read it. And I’m relatively certain that whenever that time was, I bypassed the headlines and went straight to the Entertainment and Variety section in search of Dear Abby and my horoscope. Part [...]

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The Little Things We Carry

I know, I know, I’m not following protocol and blogging a quote. I’m breaking my own rules. The rules I can barely adhere to anyway so I don’t even know why I bother with them in the first place. But whatever, I’m a renegade like that. I’ve been thinking lately about the funny little habits [...]

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