Post-vacation blues (Canada and US), post-holiday blues (UK, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries) or post-travel depression (PTD) is a type of mood that people returning home from a long trip (usually a vacation) may experience. After a great...
We are entering some interesting times with a Mercury retrograde in Taurus coming to spin things around. The first official retrograde of the year makes this a great time for reevaluating and not such a great time for initiating, signing...
I’ve been married for nearly 30 years and I love my husband very much. If we’re being honest, there are probably very few (if any) other people on this earth who could put up with my nonsense. I’m difficult. I know that. Despite my love for my...
This is not my first time here – This age of embarrassment. With her as my fourth daughter to reach 5th grade, I was already prepared for how getting my 11-year-old, Paige, to this point would feel. I knew to expect the hissing voice, telling...
Airports make me sentimental. Although I’m aware that many people are flying to attend a conference in Omaha or something else equally as dull and daunting, when I’m sitting at the gate with my overpriced coffee or at the bar with my overpriced...
First it was “quite quitting” now it’s “lifestyle fatigue”. A phrase Huff Post just talked about. Lifestyle fatigue can be summed up as “feeling stuck in a rut”. Which honestly, I think who hasn’t at...
My bestie and I were chatting recently about a sequel to a book we both read. We both liked the original book, but couldn’t remember much about it. It just didn’t stick with us. We still planned to read the second one. On the other hand, we both...
After our beloved cat, Cosmo, was killed tragically in our driveway by a neighbor a couple of years ago, poppies started springing up from the rock. Directly over the spot where his body had lay, they grew like an unplanned memorial the earth showed...
Feeling anxious every Sunday evening and night, dreading Monday morning and the work week starting all over again? Read this. What exactly are Sunday scaries? Let’s start with the very basics. “Transitioning from a weekend into what’s...
I waited on my mama to make her appearance at our annual Memorial Day family reunion with a nauseating mixture of need, anxiety and dread. When she arrived, I blinked and shook my head like a battered boxer in an attempt to adjust and refocus her...