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Most evenings, I ask my 15-year old son the same litany of questions: How was your day? Anything interesting to report? Did anything good happen? Did anything bad happen? Did you do anything to make someone else’s day better? Because he is a 15-year old boy, the answer is usually “Fine” to the first question, and “No” to the remaining ones. Although getting actual word responses versus grunts should be considered a win, I always try to press a little on the last question, because I want him to be a leader, and I want him to understand the importance of his actions, and how they affect other people. I want to encourage him to reach out to others, and do his best to bring out the good in those around him. I want him to develop people-skills that will benefit him for the rest of his life. When I ask him if he smiles at people, he tells me that he only smiles at people he knows, because to do otherwise would be viewed as “weird”. I find that so sad, but then I have to remember, I am not in a huge urban high school, trying to tread lightly and make it safely through each day…

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I had to laugh at my valentine card from my husband…it describes the daily monotony of trying to figure out dinner, in our town of not so many great choices, amidst lives that are constantly busy. Today seemed like the perfect time to finish a thought that came to me a while ago, but had been simmering on low heat for a while…

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Another full moon tonight…one would think it only happens on a rare occasion, I look forward to it with so much anticipation.  But every month, like a trusted friend, it comes again.  The nights leading up to it, I can’t sleep, or if I am able to fall asleep, I wake up as it passes by my window, crossing the night sky and nudging me as it begins to set.  The winter moons, especially, seem to line up just so with my bedroom window.  Tonight is the Snow Moon.  Sharing the billing this year is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, as well as Comet 45P, both highly touted celestial events. I watched the moon as I drove home from a late night at work, and realized later that I had seen the eclipse, without knowing I was seeing it, because I had misread the time. It was beautiful and moody in a dark hue, and we gazed back at each other the whole drive home… Continue Reading

A slip, a trip, a slide, a tear
An objection, a rejection,
Feels like nobody is there
An interjection, someone’s projection,
Those can take you right down
And you forget for a moment
who you are… Continue Reading