Dani Oliver

With all the hoopla surrounding Hugh Jackman's photo and subsequent comments about how he's aged, I'm half afraid to post my own annual pic outlining my weight loss. I wouldn't want to shock people with how I've aged a whole year in the past year.





Then again, I'm not a high-profile celeb, so who cares? And who would have the audacity to say something about it in this day and age where we're trying to drive ...

August 4, 2014

Losing my dad was hard enough; but apart from Ozzy -- who never did get to meet him -- there really wasn't anyone to turn to for support and comfort. Instead of words of kindness and compassion, I had to deal with hostility and resentment. I longed to be around family who still loved my dad, but due to an unfortunate oversight, I was not invited to his service.

Throughout most of my life I have been ...

It's not my insecurities that tend to jeopardize my relationships with others; typically, it's theirs.

They've experienced bad relationships in the past and tend to have trust issues. And after people burn you so many times, it's hard to want to keep on trying to be nice to others. We've all felt that at one time or another, right? I understand how difficult it is to be kind to unkind people. It's a real struggle.

I wasn't ...

Life's usual quirks and surprises often wreak havoc on my daily "To Do" list.

You know how it is... ever-changing priorities getting re-sorted every time a new task comes in.

At a glance I can see a distinct pattern in my waylaid To Do lists: a focus on what didn't get done.

At the top of the page it says "To Do" while further down is my proportionately smaller "Did Do" list.

That's my problem ...

Great concept and while I'd love to claim this as one of my original ideas, the reality is that most, if not all, ruggedly-active women have had this idea at one point in their lives. "Why can't it be as easy for me as it is for him?" *points at the nearest man peeing up a tree*

If I'd had the money to back this idea up when I first thought of it in the '80s, I would've invested in it. After all, this was the decade of big-haired, ...