Who I Used to Be

Who I Used to Be

My husband and I attended a party to celebrate a longtime friend’s 80th birthday recently. We hadn’t seen many of the potential attendees for a decade – more or less – because we’d switched churches; such is the cycle of life. I...
Hearty, happy, and unbreakable – not!

Hearty, happy, and unbreakable – not!

Hearty, happy, and unbreakable. This is my habitual stance: smiling, laughing, and dancing with great peace and joy. Contained, cool, quick-witted. Independent, undaunted, suave. I work assiduously over every endeavor to which I commit. Smiling all the while, making...
Miss America

Miss America

That moment, that Miss America Moment, when you arrive at a venue, breathless and brisk, unintentionally delayed by a bazillion red lights – That moment when you whisk in the door, hoping to be surreptitious, but are greeted with sea of smiles and sprinkle of...
ENFJ

ENFJ

In the early ’80s Myers-Briggs came around, sweeping the Irvine Unified School District into its cyclone path, spitting out personality type info ad hoc. I worked at a small elementary school with perhaps two dozen staff – and everyone was an ENFJ!...