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The Eclipse Gave Me Attitude Superpowers

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Deep sigh. Start a business. Check.  Get away from a badddd situation. Check. Move to a little art cottage surrounded by trees and squirrels and nice neighbors. Check. It's been the busiest, craziest year of my life, but also the best. That you could choose to be surrounded with mellow, kind people, that you didn't have to put up with the stinkers, the babies, and the whiners. The struggle never was necessary. I hadn't known.  I've felt strong, too. I've journaled, arted, did yoga, ate more carefully. Felt like God was smiling down on me much of the time. When it looked like certain death or financial disaster, help was fast in coming. Truthfully, it's been a blessed time. I thought witnessing Eclipse 2017 in 99-plus totality might bump my personal life into high gear. I should've been suspicious to the contrary when my chalkboard-painted short bus, "Chalkie", appeared to be covered with oil on the back panel. Wha...
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Painting With all The Colors

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"Completely, totally, utterly, perfectly, entirely, wholly, fully, quite thoroughly, unreservedly" That's what Google says about "absolutely". I'd add another word to that: finally. Once and for all. And maybe a sigh behind it, too. Behind me, my nervous dog, Gracie, paces back and forth across the cottage's hardwood floor. She paces, I believe, because she feels captive, knowing there are other things on the outside. Squirrels, birds, great places to take a squat. She paces because she's slightly neurotic, always has been. What else might I expect of a creature with hypnotic yellow eyes? Last year, I was experiencing a similar restlessness as I sat in the passenger seat, looking out the window with the sick feeling of being in the wrong place, with the wrong people, everything built around what others expected. "I want a little cottage somewhere," I wrote in a journal four-plus years ago, "with a front porch, some ...
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