Posted in aging, art, artists, books, caregiving, chaos, daughters, diet, family, inspirational, marketing, mothering, perfection, relationships, science, spiritual, theory, wabi-sabi, wine, women, writing, yoga on January 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Chaos. Bad Connotations, right? Not necessarily.
I recently reviewed a book on Amazon, “The Perfect Mess.” It’s about rejecting the need to be perfect and neat and trade it in for more creativity and trust. I get that. I’m one of the UNneat. My mantra is, “Organized People Are Just Too Lazy To Look For Things.”
If you ring my [...]
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Posted in aging, books, caregiving, daughters, diet, eldercare, family, inspirational, marketing, mothering, relationships, spiritual, women on January 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I live on the edge of a bird sanctuary, and every morning I look out my back window and watch the birds gather in my moss-draped water oaks. Egrets, pelicans, seagulls, herons, and yes, pink flamingos weight my limbs and squak at each other in what seems to be a mixture of tiffs and gossip and [...]
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Posted in books, caregiving, diet, eldercare, family, inspirational, marketing, mothering, relationships, women on January 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Whatever happened to a slow January? Not 2007–it shot out like a cannonball. I’m on the “Carol has a book coming out April 1st diet.” I’m walking, running (it’s rather pitiful to watch, I’m sure), attending yoga, lifting weights–it’s amazing what motivation a book publication can be! Marketing plans are on full-tilt. Reviews are in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 1, 2007 | No Comments »
As the clock ticks down to midnight, I’m reminded of the precarious nature of time. We can be so aware of its passing that it’s almost excruciating, or it can slip by unannounced and unnoticed. During the last few years of my mother’s life, time meant very little to her. Alzheimer’s had all but obliterated day and [...]
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