Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
There’s a story about a goldfish making the rounds on social media that I’ll condense a bit in the interest of space.
You know the feeling. You’re running that loop over and over in your head, looking at a situation and wishing you had made a different decision.
Last weekend, Don and I were bumming around when I pointed out a business where, many years back, I once nearly worked.
DEAR PAM: I read with much interest, your Holiday Tipping Guide column in December and found it helpful. In light of that column, I wanted to send along a rather surprising “tip request” that I recently received. It was so bizarre that I believe it belongs in the “you-can’t-make-this-up” cat…
Are you feeling betrayed? Vulnerable? Worried about a health diagnosis, job layoff or relationship?
It might seem silly to need validation over something I’ve been doing for most of my life, but I did.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
If my dad were still around and had been in the car with my daughter and me, he would have almost certainly used the word “yammering” and said something about how our jaws must be getting tired because his ears surely were.
The photography session appeared well underway when I pulled up to our warehouse.
You might be familiar with the word gaslighting, although it’s not a mainstream topic of conversation.
DEAR PAM: My husband and I are over-the-moon excited. After several years of trying to have a baby, we are thrilled to find out that we are pregnant! This will also be the first grandchild for both sets of parents. Through our joy, we have run into a bit of a snag. Both sets of our parents, …
It took a while to realize the impact the long-ago lesson would have on me.
Flash bulletin: most folks decide whether they like you within seconds of meeting you. This is primarily an unconscious decision.
Flash bulletin: Did you know your ability to love someone else depends on your ability to love yourself?
My husband has this thing he does with words — he makes quite a few of them up. And then he inserts his weird words into dialogue with such casual confidence, he’s seldom called out about it. Rather, folks are left quietly questioning their own clearly inadequate vocabularies until able to a…
How many times have you found yourself listening to the same old story from one of your friends? Or from yourself?
With my husband out of town for several days to attend a funeral and help a friend move, I left the television running on a continuous stream of wildlife-related YouTube videos while I worked on a variety of projects late into the night.
“Why hasn’t he returned my call? “Did you hear what she said?” “I must have done something wrong.”
The holidays are behind us and it’s all over but the shoutin! For many, it meant lots of togetherness with friends, family…and bacteria and viruses. It’s no surprise that hospital censuses go up during this time of year due to infectious diseases such as the flu, RSV, COVID, and others.
I stood in front of the mirror longer than usual because the person reflected hardly seemed to be me. She looked more like someone I drew with my left hand.
