• Perception is Everything

    A few days ago I was stopped for a traffic light at a very busy intersection. I was the first in line, waiting to turn left, and as I waited not so patiently for the green light, I heard the driver behind me honking his horn. I glanced in the rear view mirror and he was gesturing in a manner that suggested that I should go. I was instantly aggravated…didn’t he see that the light was red?? What did he want me to do, run it and risk a ticket? I had not been paying close attention to the traffic rotation, but the light did seem to be taking a bit long to turn. However, I wasn’t about to budge. Finally, the green turn signal came.…

  • Two Months Later

    Wow. Where do I start? For the last two months, I’ve been packing, selling, moving, unpacking, hunting, creating and learning. Packing, because we moved to central Florida and started a new life apart from that which we had been accustomed to over the past ten years. It took 3 weeks to pack! Selling, because we had too much stuff to move. For six weekends we did yard sales at my Mom’s to “liquidate” all our belongings. That was tough, but a necessary evil. Moving, because our lives took an unexpected direction, and staying where we were just was not an option in our minds. Central Florida had opportunities and we took them. Unpacking, because my husband doesn’t like stacked up boxes everywhere. It took one…