Spring Cleansing

Spring cleaning is an annual rite of passage for many, however, I tend to clean out every three months or so due to my small living quarters. I’m a regular at the local Salvation Army and the Arlington Haz Mat recycling facility. But for Spring 2012, I’m not only cleaning out, I’m cleansing. While it feels good to rid myself of old t-shirts, shorts and mountains of black shoes, I’m digging deeper.  Cleansing out, unlike cleaning out, is ridding myself of the emotional stuff. It’s the stuff that not only takes up space in our closets, but unloads every fiber and piece of matter onto our hearts. These aren’t those things that you hold on to because you might need them later or are treasured family heirlooms. Nope, it’s the...

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Shedding the Cocoon

I’ve been a slack-ass the past two months about posting and though  I’ve thought on many days, I’m going to say this or that, but frankly, I just didn’t feel like it. The mere act of opening up my WordPress files, typing and well, thinking and reflecting on life just wasn’t in me. The cold, the dreariness, the gloom of  January and February over took me, and the most exciting thing was discovering that Friday Night Lights is a really good show (thanks Netflix). And with my remote control firmly planted in my right hand and my Netflix queue loaded,  I hibernated in my one-bedroom cocoon waiting for spring. And today it looks as if spring seems to have finally made it’s 2012 debut.  The windows are open and once again the roar...

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Belief Without Action is No Belief at All

A  friend once told me, “your only job is to believe.”  And yes, once upon a time, I believed in Santa Claus and magically on Christmas morning  I got  what I had asked for. However, I’m not five anymore and if my job as an adult was only to believe, I’m confident I’d be continually disappointed. Yes, believing in something is vital today’s complex and dysfunctional world, but to believe in isolation is incomplete, a dangling participle, waiting for the the antecedent to take it’s rightful place. Belief without action might as well be  no belief at all. As I see it, the older we get the more we have to have substance to support our beliefs. Just sitting around idly waiting for something to happen just because we...

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The Class of 2015

Over the past few weeks, my Facebook feed has been full of back to school photos. Kids starting 1st grade, 7th grade and even a college freshmen. I drive through the streets of DC where at  GW and Georgetown I’m greeted with “Welcome Back Students” signs. It’s an annual rite of passage for parents and kids alike.  An event I haven’t participated in since Fall of 1994.  But this year, I came across a post that gave me pause: a reminder that there’s not only a new generation of back to schooler’s,  but a whole new mindset. A few of my favorite’s from the  full list: O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Women have never been too old to have children. Ferris...

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Is “The” Making a Comeback?

Lately I’ve noticed that “the” is all over entertainment. In a world of high creative-types, I’m bewildered on the blandness of the “The” statement. It’s a cop out for being original in the hopes that the latest “The” will be the next daytime hit (aka The View)  or in the case of movies, an Oscar nod (aka: The GodFather, The Graduate,  The Exorcist, The Insider). Yet, there’s something about the most recent boom of “The’s” that doesn’t ring in my ear, success. The Five The Chew The Talk The Help The Revolution After all, once upon a time there was a little web project, named, The Facebook. Makes me wonder if dropping “the” helped it’s cause to become a worldwid

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