not bad advice...

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down." - Natalie Goldberg

I am in a very depressive mood lately, in part because my daughter is growing up.  She is fourteen and we have always had a very close relationship.  I know she has her own life and I am trying to let her go out on her own.  She have a very good solid foundation and I trust she will make the right decisions.  I don't know how to handle this separate as she is the only one I

Maybe it's just me since I seem to always be heading in the opposite direction of the masses, but is there an increased passion for plastic, a sort of green whiplash?

I know it is wrong for me to feel jealous of my seventeen year old daughter for having a social life but I do. Don't misunderstand I want my daughter to be happy and feel popular but I am alone and have given up so much to be a good single mother.

Last night I watched the movie He's Just Not That Into You. The movie was supposed to be funny but I was blown away by how sad it actually was. It strikes me as bizarre how hard we have worked as women to get ahead and be respected only to have an entire generation of young women fall right back into the pattern of "if I don't have a relationship I am not whole".

The other day in the paper there were these cute photographs of these sweet looking little green monkeys! Through science we have been able to make these little monkeys a rather bizarre shade of green and the little monkeys also glow in the dark? WHY is this helpful to us or the little monkeys?

Getting old is no laughing matter - literally. Adults on average laugh 15 times while children laugh 400 times. That's 25 giggles and guffaws for every hour they are awake!!!