Archive for September, 2008

Alice & The Cat

Posted on September 26, 2008. Filed under: Learning Curve, Random Rarebits, Soul Food |

In Lewis Caroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”, Alice asked the Cat, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” said the Cat.

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Sexy, successful…and single?

Posted on September 14, 2008. Filed under: Learning Curve, Woman at Work |

Are you a sexy, successful…and single woman? You may find yourself in the same situation that I and many other sexy, successful and single women are facing.

This is an enlightening article on our predicament. Some of us may agree on the pointers in the article, and some of us may not agree. Many of [...]

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No Regrets

Posted on September 14, 2008. Filed under: Soul Food |

American artist, Thomas Kinkade eloquently said, “When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter… then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.”
Life is about the choices we make – we should stand by our choices – no regrets.

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Plato on love and marriage

Posted on September 13, 2008. Filed under: Learning Curve, Soul Food |

One day, Plato asked his teacher, “What is love? How can I find it?”
 
The teacher answered, “There’s a large wheat field in front. Walk there without turning back, and take just one leaf. If you can find one leaf that you think is extraordinary, it means you have found love.”
 
So Plato walked…and not long after [...]

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Secrets of A Woman

Posted on September 8, 2008. Filed under: Laugh a lil, Learning Curve, Random Rarebits |

Some things you never knew… [actually, I never did either...]
Secrets of a Woman
By: Kathryn Eisman
 
 

The woman you sleep with gazes into your eyes and tells you she loves you. And you believe her. You can tell by the way she looks at you, the way she holds you, the way she seems to always know [...]

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Like expecting gold…

Posted on September 6, 2008. Filed under: Learning Curve, Soul Food |

American essayist and nature writer, Maurice Setter (1817-1862) once wrote: “Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.”
 
Maybe that’s why I kept missing the train when it comes to relationships, and I find it difficult to fall in love because I was hoping to find someone who has the right chemistry. Perhaps, [...]

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Truth, like surgery, may hurt

Posted on September 5, 2008. Filed under: C'est La Vie!, Random Rarebits, Random Thots, Thinking Aloud |

 
As prominent writer on modern Chinese and Asian subjects, Han Suyin, who is author of the novels, “A Many-Splendoured Thing” (which was made into the 1955 movie “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing”), “Till Morning Comes”, “The Enchantress”, “Four Faces”, and “The Mountain is Young”, puts it, “Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.”
 
The [...]

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Only man can know the pain

Posted on September 4, 2008. Filed under: Random Rarebits, Random Thots |

I couldn’t sleep last night after waking up from a very bad dream – a nightmare about The Ex-Hubby. In the nightmare, The Ex-Hubby was a ogre that was going to ravage me, and then an angel came in the nick of time to rescue me from his monstrosity.

When everything didn’t work to make me [...]

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Over The Waters of Santa Ana

Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: Random Rarebits, Random Thots |

Sudden Flash Back. I think I’m getting my memory back…
The Ex-Hubby is aerophobic. Besides being hydrophobic and agrophobic.
There was one time we were flying from San Jose to Los Angeles. Must be in September 1993, before we got married. While flying over the waters of Santa Ana, we hit an air pocket, it dropped almost [...]

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Keeping Busy

Posted on September 1, 2008. Filed under: Random Rarebits, Thinking Aloud |

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself,” Lucille Ball (1911-1989), the Comic Actress once said.

Similarly, for me, to take my minds off The Ex-Hubby and the things that he did [...]

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