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Delusion of Perfection I am a recovering perfectionist. I’ve experienced and am familiar with the inner turmoil that arises when I strive toward the ideal version of me instead of being content with the real, natural, ordinary version of me.  Perfectionism is actually a theory, one that is as old as writers and philosophers such…

Setting a Regular Course As a daughter of an alcoholic father, I grew up in a chaotic household never knowing what to expect; catastrophe or calm, anger or good humor, a gentle or harsh exchange of words.  Then when I was 13, like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, my life was uprooted and I…

A Few Better Choices Recently, I saw a man standing on a busy street corner holding a sign that read, “I’d rather beg than steal.” His message reminded me of one of the times in my life, when I have also thought I had only two choices; neither one of them being any good.  Even…

Simple Privileges According to the wide range of news resources available to all of us, there isn’t any good news. Random shootings, protests and inflation are the headlines and for some odd reason or another, sad, bad, headlines sell more than good ones. I like what Paul Harvey once said, “In times like these, it…