Random Musings

I'm back

I did what I said I wasn't going to do. I stopped writing. I started feeling pressed to do it, so I did the thing I do when I feel pressed; I quit doing it.

I think I have ODD. That's yet another one of the tags doctors and schools hang on kids things these days. It stands for Oppositional Defiance Disorder and it is applied to those individuals who buck authority and defy being mandated to do things. That's me all the way. I'm fine with doing a thing until somebody tells me, or I start to feel that I have to do it. At that point all bets are off.

Self-defeating, I know, but it is what it is.

It's already October. The older one gets, the faster the days seem to go by. One minute, you're celebrating the New Year, and the next thing you know you're putting up the Christmas tree again.

But the year has been good. I made it through some major challenges on the job. I traveled to Germany for the first time. It was great. My health is good, although I still need to lose some weight. My children are gainfully employed and living independent lives. With the nest finally empty, my husband and I have found an amicable rhythm for getting along, orbiting each other's universes, dropping in on occasion for a pleasant, satisfying visit.

I'm sorting myself out, and life itself is good.