http://karenmichelle.net Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:11:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fair warning...this is a rant. There are swears. Deal. I like to consider myself fairly modern. I work, I share chores and child-rearing with Joel, heck we even split cooking duties. I don't mind getting my own door, though I love it when I'm treated chivalrously. If we're out to dinner ... http://karenmichelle.net/im-sorrywhy-are-you-here/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-sorrywhy-are-you-here I've been dealing with some medical falderal the past two weeks and I've been tired, incredibly irritable and exceedingly impatient to the point of downright rudeness. You know that horrid little inside voice that you keep clamped down internally because its monologue is so amazingly critical and nasty that you'd ... http://karenmichelle.net/true-friends/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=true-friends Saturday was like most days around here, just with a bit lighter work load. We got up, had breakfast, made plans to do some yardwork before it got hot then go out for some ice cream in the afternoon with the kids to cool off. Perhaps we would even make ... http://karenmichelle.net/perspective/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=perspective Today, was a difficult day. By far one of the hardest days of my adult life. Today we buried Stephen. He was my brother's very best friend, so much so that Stephen was the brother he never had and vice versa. They brought out the good in each other and ... http://karenmichelle.net/stephen/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stephen My heart screams in anger caught in the web of deceit thrashing against the barbs bleeding like so many times before. Never again! It rages like a caged beast beating itself senseless against the bars knowing its futile vows are just that useless against the inevitable. Scuffed and bruised, torn and bloodied in the gutter of its own making. http://karenmichelle.net/rage/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rage Ok, it's not that I fear change, so much as I'm stubborn. My mother will back me up with this one, I'm sure. If I find a way that something works for me, then it will take a lot of convincing for me to change my ways. Now, this doesn't ... http://karenmichelle.net/adjust-this/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adjust-this It's a seemingly innoccous word, want. So deceptively simple even in definition: to wish, need, crave, demand, or desire. But the answer to the question "What do you want?" is so brutally complex that it's nearly impossible to answer definitively. It's a word common enough around our household..."what do you want for ... http://karenmichelle.net/want/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=want Today is not just Tax Day when everyone over the age of 18 frets and worries and writes angry checks. Today is not just a day for Tea Parties and raging against the government that mismanages our money in such a way that would land an individual in jail. Today ... http://karenmichelle.net/april-15th/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=april-15th This past week, Stephen has never been far from my thoughts. Because of the amazing generosity of so many family, friends and strangers, he and Rosemary were able to travel to Houston last week for the battery of tests to once again battle the Hodgkins and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma still attacking ... http://karenmichelle.net/rebirth/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebirth To say I am angry would not even begin to describe the blood that is currently boiling in my veins. I am at a loss for adjectives to describe how horrified and agitated I feel. This morning over my morning coffee, I did what I always do...I run through my email, ... http://karenmichelle.net/social-commentar/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-commentar