Entries from July 2009

July 30, 2009

Thinking like a grown up?

Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be…but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

July 29, 2009

An apple a day. If it were that simple.

I have grown weary of late arguing about health care with friends, family, facebook cohorts, twitterers, anywhere and everywhere. I don’t know why I engage in the conversation,  I usually don’t, as I understand that in matters of sex/politics/religion one rarely changes the mind of another. We are all terribly entrenched. But I talk about [...]

July 22, 2009

outsidemycomfortzone

A little something new  (and with the correct number of “r’s” ).
www.tammyr.wordpress.com

July 17, 2009

Goodbye Walter.

Growing up I had two idols. One in real life and one on television.
Walter Cronkite and Lou Grant. (Not Mary, Lou)
Walter Cronkite was, I believe, the last of the true journalists.
I am very sad.
Maybe someday when I’m not I’ll write about how I loved Walter and why.

July 14, 2009

Amen.

July 10, 2009

On again, off again, maybe, mostly.

July is independence month
but we talk about dependence.
Torpor, memories, ice cream, roaring.
Still trying to blame.
Still trying to accept.
Not enough listening.
What does it mean
not now.
It’s not about love
It’s about focus
He says.
No, I say.
If you still love
I do. He screams.
Then why?
Not now.
Then what, I cry.
We keep going.
We see.
We figure it out again, he whispers.
But not now, someday.