You’re doing it to yourself with a little help from your FRENS. “Crap!” I exclaimed after glancing at a pending expense on my bank app. I was frustrated because my newly minted goal is to slow the hemorrhaging of cash every month, and on the very day I set the…

She gave me a gift that keeps on giving. — The first place I visited after the pandemic was over (joke) was the suburbs of Philadelphia. I flew into PHL after Mother’s Day and left in mid-June. …

Please stop giving this stupid advice to stressed out people. — Pretty please just stop already with the trite advice to ‘take a bath’ when one is feeling tired, bored, stressed, had a bad day, derailed their diet, had a fight with a significant other, or any minor or major inconvenience. Enough already! I Don’t Wanna Take a Bath and You Can’t Make Me California is constantly going in and out of…

I wish I was talking about raucous sex, but it’s a clean story instead. — Standing in the doorway to the bathroom the girls share, I shudder in disgust, and vow the second they are all out of the house, I am going to clean it. Even though I instituted a new cleaning schedule for my girls to follow, let’s be kind and say they’ve…

Unexpected feelings during sorting sorta makes me feel bad about myself. — Leaving San Diego has been a goal for many years now. I know, I know. You’re sitting there wondering why in the world would I want to leave paradise? But I’m here to tell you that paradise gets boring. Imagine sunny days nearly 365 days per year. …

And 10 reasons is only the tip of the iceberg. — Back in June of 2020, I’d had enough of Facebook. I realized the social media site was causing a combination of bad feelings in me like anxiety, anger, disgust, dread, and disdain for so many of my frenz (the word I use for the people I am connected with but…