Tag: chaos

Crunch. The impact slammed me forward and my seat belt jerked me back. That did NOT just happen, I thought, my mind surprised and incredulous. It didn’t take long for it to become a believer. I had definitely been rear-ended on the interstate, on a Friday night, no less....

I heard recently that “Happiness is reality minus expectations.”[1] That quote had me pondering over how many happy “now” moments are missed because we are consumed with our expectations of a future “now.” For me, being present in the “now” can be challenging since I’m a planner and like...

This year seems to have seen more than its fair share of chaos: natural disasters, a pandemic, economic shutdowns, civil unrest—just to name a few. But despite all of that, I am grateful that I live in a country where I have the freedom to vote. When I cast...

In an effort to reduce the weekly, shall I say daily, chaos and stress of meal planning and preparing, I recently decided to try something new. I bought a cookbook recommended by a friend that approaches meal planning from a slightly different angle. Cook Once, Eat All Week[1] simplifies...

After a particularly busy week between work and family stuff, I finally went grocery shopping this past Friday with plans to get the ingredients needed for a different method of meal prep that I wanted to try (more on that soon). Several hours and stores later, I exited Trader...

I internalize things, a lot of things: stress, frustrations, worries, perceptions of people or events that occur. I’ll over think a situation, trying to figure out every little detail, oftentimes before the event or potential circumstance even occurs. While a certain amount of planning and forethought is necessary, too...

I’m watching a train wreck. I’m watching, not with the macabre fascination that we generally have toward calamities, but in near panic and bewilderment. It’s not a YouTube of some random wreck that I can gasp at in surprise while being secretly entertained. No, this train wreck is close...