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March 17, 2007 - Number of Comments » 6

The Enacter implies that perhaps a midlife crisis is at hand (mine) and perhaps the named issue is “mindlessness,” to wit: “Alyssa. Your mindlessness is a going toward something else.”
Huh? “A life perhaps?”
Yes, I’d say a life.
But aren’t we all? Going toward our lives? With either gusto or grace, but almost always with […]



March 16, 2007 - Number of Comments » 4

Ah.. the Sonnets. A perfect end to a wild day… We met with the Soul Enacter, and as with so many of life’s kookiest people, he ended up quite lovely and sharp and insight (incite)ful. Though, honestly, why couldn’t my “issue’ have a better name than “Chaos”?? How about “butterfly” or “gypsy” or […]



March 15, 2007 - Number of Comments » 4

Let’s say (hypothetically) that you were a middle-30-ish lady with a grillion children living in a hippie town. Let’s say you and your hubs were having a trying time of things, just everyday things like cleaning and cooking and not fighting about soap and you figured it was time perhaps to talk to a […]



March 10, 2007 - Number of Comments » 10

Put on a dress and hook me up to the wine-drip, Sally! Mama’s got her CRAZY on!! Tonight is the auction. We’ve got 350 people coming and plan to raise $140,000.
I’ve got a temperature, my house looks like a homeless shelter, my husband isn’t talking to me, and my kids are watching […]



March 7, 2007 - Number of Comments » 9

This morning at 7:30am, my boss came and asked me to edit the auction catalog and make a variety of font, writing, and picture changes, so that it could be ready to go to the printer tomorrow morning.
In came my co-worker a few hours later who took one look at what I’d done and then […]