When you find a place that restores and refreshes you, be sure to go back there often.

We reset our clocks, computers, and phones. Why not do the same for ourselves?

If we don’t take care of ourselves, how can we take care of anybody or anything else?

If I wore a mood ring, today it would be blue. Dark and murky blue. That blue the sky gets just before a storm. The color of a Monday that dawned too early with too much on my mind and too much on my plate.

Every once in a while, I feel this way. Chalk it up to one of the astrological hazards of Sagittarian life. It happens whenever the archer in me aims so high that the distance between where I am and where I want to be seems unattainable. At times like this I know that, at least for me, there’s only one cure.

As always, I tell myself I don’t have time for this. Got to get to work. Got to get going. And yet, myself tells me I don’t have any choice. Before I change my mind, I hop in the car and get it started, hoping it will do the same for me.

Winding down the road, I hit the brakes as I come up behind an old Oldsmobile. At this pace, I will be lucky to make it to the next traffic light before sunset. As........

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