Pet Love and Loss
I’ve written in the past about loss, but it was of the inanimate kind. Today I’m writing about the kind of loss we always dread—the living kind. I expected to not leave my house today. I had three goals for the day: 1. Do laundry. 2. Complete the IRS paperwork for one of my volunteer organizations. 3. Count the money from the school’s Harvest Festival. Simple, right? Of course not. At 7:37 this morning my phone rang. It was mom. Her cat—a 22 year old evil thing who lo
Anxiety
Today I am Anxious. Here’s the interesting part of that word (am I becoming a logophile??)…it has two meanings that are in some ways contrary to one another. They are: Full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried Earnestly desirous; eager OK, that’s odd isn’t it? You can be both fearful and eager in one word. Yet, that is precisely what I am feeling at the moment. I have a trip coming up. Going to New Orleans for the firs
