“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

Sometimes…
Max makes me feel like I wasn’t cut out for motherhood.  He’s a bit of an energy vampire.  Needy of my attention.  Difficult to direct and redirect.  CONSTANTLY looking for approval and praise.
I feel like I created a monster.  His temper rivals any adult’s {though, he doesn’t break stuff or physically hurt people or things [...]

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“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.”

I’m taking a part of this life back.  Back to a time when reading books and pertinent articles, writing my heart out, and friendship were the only past times I knew.  No more Facebook, no more Hipmama, no more reading blogs that often, I’m not even sure why I read.  I’m taking back leisure time.  [...]

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“If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”

we had a party weekend around here.
friday night, i went {solo} to an old high school friend’s home for a gathering of several very naughty and funny ladies. some were people i casually knew back in the day but don’t know at all in these times.  this historical flash-back put me in a bit of [...]

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“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”

oh to go.  to go to that place where emotion becomes word, where dark becomes clear and where pain sits far, but decidedly near.  you know that place.  that place that can’t really be explained with any real written language, only expressed in ways that others have done before.  it is chaotically quite even amongst [...]

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