Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

Welcome to a new feature here on Finding Yourself, The Weekend Confessional. Here you can unload your sins and air your dirty laundry. None of us is perfect and absolution is good for the soul. Step forth my readers and have these burdens lifted from your shoulders.

Forgiven me bloggers for I have sinned. It has [...]

With hair streaming back into the wind like ribbons unfurling, I am free. My legs moving rhythmically, slicing into the night, stretch longer before me like I am growing. I tip backwards until my stomach flip flops and a pleasant buzzing fills my head. All my responsibilities and expectations slide away and there is just [...]

Folks I am about to plotz, there are big changes coming soon to Finding Yourself Despite Yourself. 1 1/2 years into blogging it’s finally time to make an investment. Very soon my new look will be unveiled. Suffice to say I will be heavily pimping the design master. Much joy will be had, many people [...]

I am angry about the sense of entitlement that so many people feel. No one seems to do things simply because they are moral but rather to get what they can. I can not count the number of times myself or my husband have walked back into a store to pay for something that was [...]

Lately my house has been filled with fur balls and snot rags. For you allergyless and petless folks, there is no surer sign that spring has arrived. I have been wearing flip flops regularly since February but the nights were still could enough to warrant fuzzy socks (NEVER worn WITH sandal’s you blaphemous northerners!) Once [...]