The sale day came, a Saturday morning, and for the first hour, maybe two hours, no one showed up. We’d been to the bank the day before and our pockets were bulging with change as we sat on the couch…
A DAY AFTER THE TAG SALE
Author: Pushing Time
I'm an award-winning author who lives and writes in New York City. I'm also an avid photographer that drags not only my laptop, but also my Nikon where ever I go. I have an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Most of my work life has been in the mental health field, though for the last 10 years devoteI have devoted myself to writing fulltime and taking photographs.
MOVING SALE (May 5th & 6th)
Downsizing I’ve learned is a process of getting rid of the old. And once I moved passed figuring out what stays and what must be left behind the major problem became how to get rid of all that’s now considered…
The Trunk That Couldn’t Fly
I am really surprised at how much emotional stuff I am being confronted with as I go through this process of downsizing. For instance, many years ago I decided that traveling was the one thing in my life that I…
Donating Books
In this downsizing process I’m beginning to feel a bit like “Old Mother Hubbard who went to her cupboard to find her dog a bone.” Yikes, take a look at the bookshelf next to my computer!! It used to be…
I found my first journal “Dear Diary”
As I go through the process of downsizing I keep running into interesting bits and pieces of the past, like my first journal, Dear Diary. I found this plastic covered book buried under a pile of other journals. When I…
THE FISH MUST GO
The fish must go. Now that’s an ambiguous statement coming from a woman who is in the throes of a major downsizing project. Does that mean the fish are coming along with us? Or does it mean that our fish…
Deconstructing Dolly
Our decision to downsize to a smaller apartment has resulted in sifting, sorting, donating, and disposing of a variety of personal items. What I wasn’t expecting, though I shouldn’t be that surprised, is the level of emotional debris that’s getting stirred…
My Story “The Competition” is the March Story of the Month in Bartleby Snopes
If you have not all ready tuned into Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine now is a good time to do so. My story “The Competition” is the Story of the Month for March. Here is a link to my story:…
Beginning The Move
Well, the time has come for us to prepare for our move from a three-bed room, six-room apartment with two full baths and into a one-bedroom apartment. We are downsizing, oh yeah, and big time!!! We have lived in…
MONKEYING AROUND
No matter how hard I tried today I could not settle down to business as usual and the writing that I do every day was just not going to happen. So, I did what I often do when I have…