When every move you make seems to lead to complete and utter aggravating frustration…and you quit drinking two years ago. I could pull my hair out in–you guessed it–frustration! I’m not a high-tech person. I’m also not a low-tech person, which makes me fall somewhere between decent and horrible with building a web-site. Well, maybe…
The Train Is Coming
Today I was reminded that I am not the only one who grieves. I read a social media post today, written by someone I’ve known a very long time. Like me, he has buried three sons, two as infants, one at 12 years old. The older child got killed in a tragic train accident. There…
The Coat I Used To Wear
My Experience With Social Anxiety Disorder I forgot about the coat I used to wear. I was brushing my teeth one morning when the memories came rushing back. I was in eighth grade, and it was too hot for a coat. I wore it anyway, because I needed protection. I felt awkward inside, embarrassed, like…
How You See Yourself Determines Who You Are
It occurred to me one night that when I woke the next day, I didn’t have to do things the same way I’d always done them! It sounds crazy to say I actually had to have the realization, but I did! You can go through your whole life and just keep doing things the same…
“Embrace Your Inner Thug”
An In-Depth Look at What It Looks Like to be At a Job for Dang Near Twenty Years With a Bunch of People Who Haven’t, and Other Related Nonsense So I walked into work this morning singing one of the oldest songs I know, “I Got Mexico,” by Eddy Raven. I was knocking it out…
A Thousand Things
That’s what I keep trying to do. A thousand and one, maybe. I’ve been doing it all my life and if I know me, I’m not gonna stop any time soon. I’m gifted, and I know it. I’ve always known it. God’s given me a little bit of a whole lot of different talents. Not…
When You Can’t Find Your Motivation (and How I Don’t Have the Answers)
I absolutely get discouraged. Looking back over this journey we’ve taken over the last year, it would be easy to overlook all of our accomplishments and just focus on the failures. Today has been one of those days when it has been hard to stay on the positive side of things. Yep, it’s more than…
Go Buy Yourself a Shovel
So much pressure. This world comes full of it. Pressure to conform, pressure to excel, pressure to be different. Trying to wade through all of that can be overwhelming to say the least, especially when your life seems to depend on it. At least your financial life. What I’ve learned since I started writing is…
Rob’s House
Last night I finished this painting. Have you ever done something that you weren’t sure you could do, but ended up really proud because you accomplished it? That’s what this is for me. I’m a color artist. What I mean is, I see life—and things—in bits of color. That’s how I paint. That’s why I…
A Place Downtown
January 2019 came really fast! Tiff and I started Willow Dreams Design in April 2018. MoodyOops has been around for several years, but not as an official business, so what we decided to do at the time was to operate MoodyOops under the umbrella of the Willow Dreams LLC and open a brick and mortar…
Pink Hair and Pajama Bottoms 