I’m Shuffling

(Wade celebrating our new house, Jan 2007) “I hate to say it Jillian my love, but you are sounding a bit manic,” my mother said to me over the phone when I was telling her about how the lease we were working on for the rental home we were to be moving into on Monday went POOF into thin air.  I...

Facing our Aversions and Phobias

There are no scientific names for the aversion that many of us have to the scraping of metal against metal, fingernails scraping down a chalkboard or biting on a towel. I can barely write about this without clenching my teeth. There are many theories as to why these noises affect us and the one that I...

How To Answer The Question What Do You Do?

I am always frozen when people ask me what I do for a living. My immediate reaction is to tell them about how adept I was in procuring outrageously fun jobs during my single days. I was a professional interviewee and could sell myself to anybody. Sadly acknowledging that I must no longer live in the past,...