This time of year always reminds me of when I was in the dating scene. The beginning of each new year is like that brief period before a first date: All the possibility in the world was still there, and no one had done anything to mess anything up! In front of us awaits 2014.… Continue reading Possibility
Author: tahlia42
What’s Eating Me
I'm more than old enough to know that not everything that I read is true (but wait! I read it on the internet AND heard it on talk radio, it MUST be true). Every once in a while, though, an idea expressed makes me wonder. Recently I listened to The End of Overeating as an… Continue reading What’s Eating Me
Frozen Memories
In elementary school I discovered the joys of the television show M*A*S*H*. To this day, I can't put my finger on exactly what the draw was, but I was hooked. I watched it everyday when I got home from school. The theme was calming to me; the characters felt like friends. Ever since I saw… Continue reading Frozen Memories
Opening Up
When I first started dancing, I started teaching dance at the same time. At the beginning, I know I was perceived as very uptight. I wasn't sure what I was doing, and dance was so important to me things had to be exact. I was too busy trying to be right to be myself. I felt… Continue reading Opening Up
Retiring
Last year this time I was writing about how writing out my holiday gift list kept me from impulse buying. Well, my holiday is over, and there are still tons of sales on at the stores. I ended up buying something that I'd been thinking of but never hard enough to make it on to… Continue reading Retiring
Creativity Re-Explored
I have had a change of thought about creativity. While somewhere at the essence of my being I still feel really uncomfortable when people describe something I've done as "creative," I have decided to embrace all compliments and fake it until I make it. What started all of this was doing yet another activity in… Continue reading Creativity Re-Explored
Sick and Quiet
I have spent seven weeks cycling through symptoms: sore throat that builds to feeling like I'm swallowing glass shards; a nose running like a fountain; and a splitting sinus headache with so much pressure it feels like my eye will pop out. No fun at all. Initially I thought all of this was allergies, but… Continue reading Sick and Quiet
Tradition is Born
My dad doesn't like creating gift lists. He actually would prefer to do just about anything else. In recent years he has dug in his heels. "Dad, what do you want for Christmas?" "I don't need anything." "That's not what I asked." "Give me cash." To me, giving an actual gift has meaning, whereas a… Continue reading Tradition is Born
A Life of Jesus
In college I took a "History of World Religions" class taught by my favorite college professor (the one that gave me my superhero name). One day that quarter I was waiting for a friend in the Student Union, and I pulled out my required reading for that class: A Life of Jesus by Shusaku Endo.… Continue reading A Life of Jesus
I’m a Big Girl Now
Years ago (okay, more than a decade), I always threw a party on the day after Thanksgiving. The timing was perfect: It gave people who stayed in town or came back for a visit a chance to escape their relatives and leftovers (no holiday-related food items were allowed, EXCEPT tamales. Those were always encouraged. Yum!)… Continue reading I’m a Big Girl Now
Grown Up, Now What? 