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Musings from An Evolving Mind

LISTENING TO YOUR “MIND CHATTER” IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO

I have desperately needed new bedroom furniture for years, literally YEARS. I still had my childhood chest of drawers that followed me from Brooklyn to New York City to Los Angeles to Westchester. It was falling apart (although furniture was much better quality back then – it was my mother’s before it was mine!) and I had a few other pieces that had followed me around to both coasts. My bedroom didn’t feel like a place of soft luxury; it felt like it was just holding place for my stuff. It didn’t feel relaxing to go to bed; it just …

Musings from An Evolving Mind

You Can’t Celebrate Mother’s Day, if You Aren’t a Mother

Welp, another Mother’s Day is upon us, and another year, that I’m not a Mother.  Sometimes, it feels like Mother’s Day is here to taunt me, and remind me that my dreams are still at large. My grandmother passed away when my mother was only 5 years old.  One Mother’s Day when she was still a young child, she went to Sunday Mass where they were giving out white carnations to the children to give to their mothers. They gave my mother a carnation, and then an adult from the Church came and snatched it away from her saying, “You …