I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of my relationships right now. I’m not always sure what is expected of me and playing a guessing game can be tricky. Sometimes I guess wrong.
My kids are in a very needy phase, which yeah, I’m Mom, so taking care of them is my job, but is it too much to expect two kids 16 and 17 to get themselves up and ready for school? (I am their alarm clock, complete with snooze, ride to the bus or school, etc).
Is it too much to expect them to rinse a dish? Or to …read more

Keep your head and your arse in the same place your feet are at. That’s what I was told when I took my thoughts out of the moment, out of the day.
Every once in a while I catch myself looking down at my feet and thinking this exact phrase. Keep it in the day, Mark, I remind myself.
TIME – we have cute acronyms for TIME;
Things I Must Earn
Things I Must Endure
Here’s a suggestion. Imagine if all the sad times, all the most challenging problems, all the real tragedies, all the unfairnesses of the world, had all happened at the same …read more