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Blog post“Bad things always happen to me.” “I was born under a bad sign.” “What’s the point? Nothing gets better anyway.” Yikes! You may know folks that talk like this once in a while (or even all the time).
They are definitely no fun to hang around. They’re giant vacuums that suck the life right out of you. And that’s just one of the results of living in a low-vibrational frequency: A really crummy attitude.
Our attitude is largely determined by our emotions, and our emotions largely -
Blog postYou know those days. We’ve all had them. Those days that start off bad and just get worse. Perhaps you woke up cranky from lack of sleep. Then spilled your last cup of vanilla caramel coffee all over your morning journal. Then accidentally dropped your toothbrush in the toilet.
Whatever the case, you’re ready to bite someone’s head off. That’s not a good place to be.
Whenever you feel stuck in a low vibration zone, it’s crucial to get out of it, and fast. If you loiter in a lo -
Blog postDo all your years kind of blend together into one big blob? You wonder where the heck the time goes, and when all those goals you set at the beginning of each year might actually come to fruition.
The answer, unfortunately, may be never. Because, as they say:
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
And unless you do start doing something differently, next year will blend into the next will blend into the next for the rest of your life.
Make 2020 the year that chan -
Blog postMy first real love in adulthood love wasn’t tall, dark and handsome. He was lean, brindle and walked on all fours. That’s because he was a dog. His name was Sawyer, and it definitely had not been love at first sight.
In fact, the first time I saw him I didn’t even give him a second glance. It was only after I had turned down all the other dogs up for adoption at the Southern Oregon Humane Society that someone said, “What about him.”
They pointed to a long-haired, wolf-like, so -
Blog postWhen you think back on your life, is it easier to remember something like getting a happy red tricycle for your birthday or the way the kids used to throw spitballs at the back of your head? No matter how happy or how bright the tricycle, we’re more likely to remember the spitballs.
The same way we’re more apt to remember that ONE PERSON who didn’t say “Hi” instead of the 18 other people who hugged us warmly when we walked into the room.
That’s just the way the human brain wor -
Blog postBack in the days when I was a jerk (read: drinking), I recall a rainy day on the subway train when I stomped on a lady’s foot because she was laughing. Not just because she was laughing, mind you, but because I was convinced she was laughing at ME.
I remember feeling like a total loser that day, even before I stomped on her foot. I had just made it onto the subway train, rushing on with wet hair, a nasty full-body hangover, and glasses that were wet, steaming up and skewed on my face. -
Blog postWhen you first start attending recovery meetings, you might notice all kinds of strange sayings plastered all over the walls. They’re short and memorable, but not always considered sweet.
In fact, many folks say they absolutely hated all those recovery sayings when they first got sober. But once they start working a recovery program, they begin to not only appreciate them, but also incorporate them into their daily lives.
In other words, the recovery sayings work. And their us -
Blog postMy arms hurt like hell a few years back. So bad, I could barely bend them without wincing in agony. I had double tendonitis in both elbows, most likely caused by hours spent every day on my computer sitting in some weird, cramped-up position. I tried copper cuffs, healing balms, special exercises and all kinds of everything but the pain wouldn’t quit.
Then I discovered Reiki. Within a few weeks of treatments, the pain was absolutely gone. And it has never come back.
Since then -
Blog postWe’re rough, tough and ready for action, right? So why the heck would we EVER surrender to anything?
Surrender brings to mind some whimpering, beat-up thing waving a ragged white flag. That’s not a pretty picture. But neither is the reality you get from fighting something you know you can’t beat. Or having your fingernails ripped out by holding on so tightly to something you would be much better off letting go.
That’s when surrender can work its magic. My own life is peppered -
Blog postPacked schedule. Scattered mind. That feeling of being pulled in 10,000 directions with no end of the mounting tasks in sight. There may come a time when feeling overwhelmed stops becoming a temporary phase and starts becoming a way of life.
That’s when it’s time to do something before your head explodes.
A previous post on overcoming overwhelm served up two quick tips for paring down your schedule in the immediate present. But if overwhelm keeps becoming a way of life, you ma -
Blog post
Gotta ban guns. Gotta ban
knives. Gotta ban sticks. They all
take lives. Gotta ban bats. Gotta
ban rocks. Gotta ban lasers and tasers that shock.
Gotta ban pepper spray. Gotta ban stones. They go
with the sticks and break all your bones. Gotta ban
weights you can smash on a head gotta ban
pillows that suffocate dead gotta ban
chainsaws and hacksaws – the mess! –
gotta ban teeth they can bite -
Blog postSome pine for the good ole days of their childhood or early romances. I pine for the good ole days of health insurance.
When I first became fully self-employed, I had a decent Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plan for about $99 per month. The deductible was reasonable, the coverage was adequate and my doctor accepted it.
Then Obamacare came along.
My existing health insurance plan instantly went extinct, as it didn’t include all the added baggage every policy no -
Blog postMaybe it’s a family member supposedly stranded in Nigeria who needs you to send them money, a random person in Topeka who wants to send you a $1 million USD inheritance, or a dire warning that your Apple ID has been compromised (even though you’ve used Apple nothing your entire life).
We’ve all had more than our fair share of email scams, and they keep getting more ridiculous by the millisecond. The latest case in point appears below.
Just when you thought scam emails couldn’t -
Blog postMy dogs had no spoons on the Fourth of July. They were so lacking in spoons, in fact, they probably still owe a few to that great spoon drawer in the sky.
In order for all this spoon talk to make any sense, it helps to be familiar with the spoon theory.
The spoon theory originated as a way to check stress levels for people with chronic illnesses, but it can be adjusted to apply to every living thing. Your Dog’s Friend does a fantastic job of providing a bastion of details -
Blog postEven if you work from home, shop at supermarkets in the dead of night, and only go outside after making sure no one else is around for miles, sooner or later you’re going to run across a jerk. Instead of running for cover, you can stand your ground confidently if you use a handy dandy tool called Mental Floss.
Mental Floss is one of 12 tools found in the Little Book of Big Jerks: Fast, Fun Illustrated Guide for Dealing with Difficult People. This post is an excerpt from the -
Blog postWhen one of my Facebook pals asked if I ever made a Maneki Neko, my first response was “A what?!”
Since my fear of appearing stupid is nearly as great as my fear of being eaten by a shark, my second response was to hop on Google to find out what the heck he was talking about.
The mystery was solved quite rapidly. Even if we aren’t familiar with the official name of the Maneki Neko, many of us are familiar with the item itself. A Maneki Neko is the cute-as-all-get-out Fortune C -
Blog postHe’s flattened. He’s wincing. His wide eyes are filled with fear. Heck, he even has a fear portal located keenly above his solar plexus where fear can be pumped in or sucked out, depending on the mood of the day.
He’s Harvey the Hell Cat, and he’s one creepy creature indeed (who happens to look smashing on my living room wall).
While Harvey the Hell Cat may seem like a peppy enough project to be done for fun, he was actually the result of yet another intriguing art therapy top -
Blog postIt’s official. This summer marks the year of air conditioning deaths. A pal posted on Facebook that hers had died. A neighbor had an old one hauled away on a flatbed. Mine was close to death, not expected to last through to fall, so I avoided a sudden and violent death by having it replaced this week.
Summers can be brutal in Tucson if you’re stuck without an air conditioner. But that’s not one the thrilling facts I’m about to expose. That one is just common sense.
The thrilli -
Blog postgood ideas mean nothing if they don't leave your head
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Blog postAre you a dog person or a cat person?
Yes, you can be both. And yes, you can switch sides.
I was a cat person growing up, until I discovered dogs in adulthood.
A woman I met at the recent Valley Dogs Rescue fundraiser, Petsfly Founder Jeni Redmond, was just the opposite. She also gave quite a thought-provoking reason for her switch from dogs to cats.
“Dogs are like needy girlfriends,” she said, noting their constant pleas for attention are akin to the flur -
Blog postMore than 80 full-color dog cartoons. A humorous take on dog terms, expressions and proverbs. A basic dog info section that helps to ensure you don’t mess with an angry hound. If these reasons simply aren’t enough to convince you to buy your copy of The Rynski Doggie Dictionary, perhaps these next three reasons are.
Here’s what the doggie dictionary can do for you:
raining cats and dogs, illustration from the rynski doggie dictionary Help you wow the crowd at dinner parties Yo -
Blog postWhether you live in a New York City high rise or a Tucson one-story house, birds always seem to find a way to hurl themselves at whatever windows you may have. Not only does the bird strike’s sickening “thump” tend to interrupt whatever you’re doing, but it also startles the dogs and often leaves a dead, injured or completely stunned bird lying on the ground.
And even birds that are merely stunned can quickly end up injured or dead once the dogs head out to investigate what made the s -
Blog postMany artists have the fantasy of blanketing the entire world with their art. And even if they don’t, it’s been one of mine since childhood. The quest to make this fantasy a reality has included drawing Snoopy on the garage wall, being grounded for drawing Snoopy on the garage wall, painting rocks that pepper my backyard garden, and creating loads of colorful signs found in yards and homes from Alabama to Australia.
And now it also includes a few items of clothing, one of which is this -
Blog postWho is Gillespie? Gillespie was this chunky little ornery dog we met at the dog park. He was a real jerk.
What made him jerky? He followed us around snarling. Then he tried to get between my own dogs and me, snarling at them if they came near me. Then he incessantly sniffed butts while snarling some more. He finally snarled one too many times in my dog Gigi’s face and Gigi attacked him.
Then what happened? Then we left.
What were Gillespie’s owners doing during all this? -
Blog postDating an astronaut. Becoming an astronaut. Learning to speak Swahili. Your bucket list may be packed with all kinds of glorious things you want to do before you die; some tangible, some fantastical and some just for the fun of the thought.
And the thought of certain activities can be much more exciting that actually completing them. Think climbing Mount Everest or breeding lemurs.
That makes the traditional bucket list a bit impractical. The traditional list also has another -
Blog postDang Celtic catalog.
As with most folks, I end up on a bazillion mailing lists and receive about 46 pounds of printed catalogs every week. Some I recycle without thinking, but something made me look through the Celtic catalog of goodies.
And now I’m hooked.
While I have yet to actually buy anything from the specific company that sent the catalog, I feel in love with several items — like the crystal ball, a delicious leather carrying pouch, and the Wheel of the Year. -
Blog postWHAT: Velvet dog paintings by Ryn Gargulinski
WHY: Honor my two dearly departed dogs: Sawyer the demon chaser and Dini the lovebug.
HOW: Acrylic on velvet
WHEN: 2015
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Blog postWhat It Is
Happy Chameleon
Pen and ink, acrylic paint on canvas
Why I Created It
This sweet chameleon dude was created as an art therapy project asking us to create art that represented a happy moment in our lives. My thoughts immediately turned to soothing serenity I felt on a yoga retreat in Tulum, Mexico, where a bigfat chameleon hung out in the corner of the studio hut watching our yoga sessions.
The interior of the chameleon features small, detaile -
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