Courting Destiny

What I hate most: Pity. Pity from others; and self-pity. This isn’t a story about pity. Nor is it a sad story. It is a story about a life, and a woman who began college in 1968, but still thinks she has a lifetime to live. Why say when she began college rather than the year she was born?  1968,… View Post

Push is pull; pull is push. Up is down; down is up. East is….yes, it’s west in my world. If you ask me to push a door I will invariably pull it, and vice versa. Directions—fortunately, we have GPS’s now, and I seriously love getting lost on vacation. Other times, not so much as there’s this thing called “being on time,”… View Post

My FICO score went down more than 120 points over two missed payments (that I didn’t know I missed as the bill said zero balance) of—-$4.95 a month. Yes this is all over $9.90–with fees and everything else, it came to $30. I found this out because of an alert from Credit Karma. The credit card company I owed this… View Post

There are two words I consciously try not to use: “miracle,” and any variation of “blessed.” I do this because, I believe that a true miracle is a rarity. Blessed is a holy word best used, I think, to honor the dead or in a religious context. That said this past week I have felt incredibly blessed, and that what… View Post

You say, a bit too proudly, that after President Obama was elected you went about your day, didn’t scream from the rafters, and accepted his presidency. That is true. At the same time, other people were screaming that he wasn’t born in the USA and demanding to see his birth certificate–only the long form would do. The current occupant of… View Post