QMusings

What a difference a year makes. And that’s a very good thing.

I re-read my birthday entries from last year and it’s interesting to see where my head was at the time.
I knew that I had to make changes in my life and that there would be challenges ahead of me. I just had no idea [...]

I come from a family of doomsayers.
You want a worse case scenario we can provide one.
We gots the “nobody-loves-me-I’m-gonna-end-up-being-a-bag-lady” scenario.
You can pick and choose from buffet of prolonged and painful deaths. All alone. In a nursing home. If you’re lucky.
Why try new things when it’s just going to end in failure. Better to stay [...]

I had a bit of an “old school” upbringing. At least, I call it Old School – no talking back, homework before play, say please and thank you and look both ways before crossing the street.

Good behavior was a given and straight A’s were taken for granted.
This meant that the only feedback I got seemed [...]