When you're a kid, you don't realize that the way you see the world isn't the way everybody sees the world.
Kaleidscope
Dear Jane Fonda
In Grace and Frankie, you and Tomlin have shown how large life can be for women beyond the all-consuming family-raising work.
To Thine Own Self
My whole life, I've been told "you're too hard on yourself", but that message never made sense to me until I heard the phrase "be gentle with yourself." What an interesting word, "yourself." The self belonging to you, like two separate entities. Part of the triumverate, the Son and the Holy Ghost. My "self" is... Continue Reading →
Whistle While you Work
Perhaps the biggest lesson so far from living alone is my shifting attitude about housework. Raising the kids, I resented the endless cleaning, the thanklessness of the repetition, the demeaning scullery-maid position into which I was forced. If I wasn't the person responsible for cleaning something, I was responsible for telling someone else to clean... Continue Reading →
Late Night
After a poor night's sleep last night, I am still awake at 11 p.m. Not because I can't sleep, but because I don't want to. Because at 9:30, I suddenly felt like getting some things done, like drilling some screws into a bench I'm repairing and laying out the new fabric I picked up today... Continue Reading →
Meg Currell 