Things I've learned this week.

Maybe there's no such thing as a "mid-life crisis", instead,  it's a "mid-life epiphany".  Maybe people are finally old enough and wise enough to realize that they have taken the wrong path for the wrong reasons and anxiety is their barometer. 

When we throw the word "crisis" around, it is a means of control. We want people to think that what they are feeling or doing is wrong, "think with your head", we say, because we ourselves are afraid of change, afraid of risk.  Crisis is what happens before all hell breaks loose.  

Choose, instead, to use the word "epiphany" and we are acknowledging a sudden moment of clarity, of light, giving them the freedom to "follow their heart".  That elicits constructive, positive change.  By mid-life they've darn well earned the right.

Things I learned today

Things I learned today:

1) If you leave your 13 year old son alone for 5 minutes with your 9 year old daughter while they are doing math homework in hopes he will tutor her a little,  you'll come back to find she has learned how to calculate "boobless" on the calculator.

2) When your 9 year old daughter tells you she asked your ex-husband if she could bring her bike over to your house for the weekend and he says, "yes, as long as you bring it back", he doesn't really mean, "yes, as long as you bring it back". Must get ex-husband code book.

3) Yes, the cat can in fact climb 4 shelves high in the pantry to the cat treat bag and will do so with impeccable timing to scare the absolute crap out of you when you've just watch way too many episodes of Ghost Adventures. 

Can't wait for tomorrow.