It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time!
Troop 2693 is out n about selling cookies – you need not eat all the cookies you buy – you can donate them to the Omaha Food Bank! The Troop will take them to the Food Bank on a volunteer mission later this spring.
It’s all about perspective…
You could have woken up to find out school decided to start at 10am instead of 8:20 or even 10:20. Wonder why they would pick an odd time, or for that matter, what time the kids are REALLY supposed to be at school. But then those musings quickly fade as you hear your older child start crying in the bathroom and walk in to discover that
Because none of the food from the previous day was digested. I’d gladly take the 20 inches of snow. Of course, those stranded in the airports (Chicago cancelled all flights as well) would probably take cleaning my bathroom…
(first published Feb 2008, photo courtesy Tracy Kempkes)
First Published on DivineCaroline, April 2008
Twenty years ago, had someone told me I’d be living in Nebraska, I’d have said, “Where’s Nebraska?” Think about it—when’s the last time you saw a Nebraska license plate on a car in a movie? I don’t know either.
But love makes us do strange things, and I moved to Nebraska with the hopes of staying near the one I loved. I stayed in Nebraska because it feels right. The air is clean; grass, flowers, and trees line the roads more than garbage, signage, and commercial buildings. Rush hour means driving forty-five instead of sixty on the freeway, and taking an alternative route will usually lead to learning about history. Read the rest of this entry »
“Rumination is a style of thinking in which, like a hamster in a cage, you run in tight circles on a treadmill in your brain. It means obsessing about problems, about a loss, about any kind of a setback or ambiguity without moving past thought into the realm of action.”
Oddly, the dictionary definition is nowhere near as negative. Which leads me to my thoughts on psychology and the damage it has done on our most precious resource—life itself. Read the rest of this entry »
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