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Don't Be Afraid of Your Comfort Zone
Here's A Thought - June 12, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. If you pay attention to all the slogans and memes, you should be very worried, or guilty, or ashamed, if you spend even a second in your comfort zone. Slacker! Couch potato! Taker up of valuable space on the planet! I'm calling shenanigans. Here's what I have to say abo...
Here Comes My Second Childhood, And I'm Excited
Here's A Thought - June 05, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. "Second childhood" is a term with unfortunate connotations. But if you look at it a different way, it sounds kind of wonderful. Let' give it a think. Intro Music by Jerome Chauvel from Pixabay Support the Show. Do you have comments to share or an idea for an upcoming ...
Why You Should Never Buy a Bra Online But I'm Doing It Anyway
Here's A Thought - May 29, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. When the girls need a new house because their old one's wearing out . . . attention must be paid So let's talk about the one article of clothing for which I really, truly hate to shop. I bet I'm not the only one. Support the Show. Do you have comments to share or an ...
Is That a Worm in Your Head, Or Are You Just Running For President?
Here's A Thought - May 22, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The recent news that presidential candidate RFK Jr. has disclosed that doctors discovered a (dead) worm in his brain has me overthinking about . . . things that want to eat our brains. Real things, not zombies. Turns out it's not just worms. Join me for an introduction...
Am I The World's Oldest Spoiled Brat?
Here's A Thought - May 15, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In which I follow another writer's clever writing prompt -- and get in touch with my inner Princess. Want to play along? Check out Karen Schwartz and her This or That challenges on Medium.com! How do you feel about treating yourself, and what's your favorite (decentl...
Are You House-Proud?
Here's A Thought - May 08, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. "House-proud" is how my mother's generation used to describe someone (always a woman) who was fussy and vain about how her house looked -- or, somebody whose home someone like my mother might worry was nicer than hers. It's an old-fashioned term. But the feeling is stil...
How the movie "Civil War" Helped Me Find Meaning -- Where I Wasn't Looking
Here's A Thought - May 01, 2024 06:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Going to see the movie Civil War, the 2024 release written and directed by Alex Garland, isn't like seeing most movies. You walk out of the theater with a lot to think about -- and maybe you walk out changed. What the experience has done for me is to help me embrace a ...
Why Did the Sheep Cross the Road?
Here's A Thought - April 24, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In which I witness a semiannual Idaho tradition — when sheep take over a major roadway on their way to greener pastures. It's an Idaho thing. Want to learn more? Helpful links: Andy Little, the “Idaho Sheep King" Idaho sheep ranchers Frank Shirts and Henry Etcheverry ...
If You're Feeling All Alone — You're Not. Science Says So
Here's A Thought - April 17, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week, we give thought to how much of us is really "us" — turns out it's way less than we thought. You really do contain multitudes. Pardon a few technical glitches this week, thanks to a crabby audio system and a very tight schedule due to travel. Or just pretend I...
My Classmate Didn't Just Drink the Kool-Aid: She Brewed It
Here's A Thought - April 10, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The Jonestown Massacre happened 46 years ago. But to me, it feels way too close — because one of the people who died there was a girl I went to school with. She was a quiet, shy girl, the daughter of a pastor when I knew her. For years I thought of her as a duped, innoc...
Haiku With Poo
Here's A Thought - April 03, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. A brief meditation on how my dog and I may walk the same path, yet our journeys differ. Trigger warning: contains haiku Sound Effect from Pixabay Haiku Music by Inner Tune from Pixabay Support the Show. Do you have comments to share or an idea for an upcoming episode...
Sayonara, Summer Body
Here's A Thought - March 27, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It's spring at last — a season that brings hope, energy, renewal — and for far too many of us the dread of swimsuit season. In this episode, I celebrate reaching the threshold of Summer Body Exemption. Spring Sound Effect from Pixabay Boomerang Sound Effect by Jurij fro...
Thanks for Flying Clickbait Air (Not)
Here's A Thought - March 20, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In which I describe our recent experience with what's politely called a "low-cost carrier" airline. They aren't all this sketchy, thank God. Opening Music by Oleg Kyrylkovv from Pixabay Sound Effect by UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay Support the Show. Do you have comment...
That Time My Husband Found Me on the Bathroom Floor
Here's A Thought - March 13, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Sometimes our best intentions have completely unanticipated results. Here's what happened when I signed up for a research study. Resources for Alzheimer's and dementia: Alzheimer's Association Alzheimers.gov Careforth (resources for dementia caregivers) National Ins...
Psst . . . Universe, Are You Listening? I Have A Request
Here's A Thought - March 06, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In which your devoted overthinker contemplates the manner and method of her own final exit. Not being negative or nihilistic here -- just stating my preference. I might even have stumbled on a loophole. Support the Show. Do you have comments to share or an idea for an...
Season 3, Episode 2: A Solution to the Woman Problem
Here's A Thought - February 28, 2024 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Thanks to the recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that says frozen embryos in test tubes equal are human beings, yours truly has been listening to the fallout (for example, what this means for IVF treatments) and overthinking what this means. Clearly, the GOP has a r...
We're Back! Season 3, Episode 1: Yes to the Dress . . . And Now?
Here's A Thought - February 21, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. For a habitual overthinker like me, the happiest of occasions can cause a spiral. Especially when there's nothing to worry about. IYKYK, and if not, don't tell me to calm down. Support the Show. Do you have comments to share or an idea for an upcoming episode? Need som...
Cheers to Episode 100! Now, Let's Get Serious
Here's A Thought - November 29, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, Here's A Thought reaches a milestone that a lot of podcasts never achieve — and that is entirely thanks to listeners like you. So I'm enormously appreciative. I'm also thinking deeply -- which is distinct, I hope, from overthinking — about the interview...
Of Turkeys, Real and Symbolic
Here's A Thought - November 22, 2023 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this 99th episode of Here's A Thought, we think about Thanksgiving, which is happening in the U.S. this week — what it means, what it's supposed to mean, how it started, and what happens when it doesn't live up to expectations: a meditation partly in rhyming verse fo...
The Box in My Closet That Haunts Me
Here's A Thought - November 15, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. I keep the journals I've written over the years — but now, as the recipient of the many private journals and diaries that my mother wrote over the course of decades, I'm rethinking whether I should hang onto mine. Or, hers. What's the right thing to do with my mother's...
What Horses Can Teach Us About Teenagers (and Writing)
Here's A Thought - November 08, 2023 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this 97th (!) episode of Here's A Thought, I offer the lessons that horses have taught me about adolescent humans (they have a surprising amount in common), and why I write for them — adolescents, that is, not horses. Sound Effect by UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay Sup...
Meet the Man Who's Not Worried About Death -- Because He's Never Going to Die
Here's A Thought - November 01, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Here's hoping you and yours enjoyed a lovely Halloween! This episode is going live on November 1, traditionally the Day of the Dead: so I've been overthinking about a news article I read not long ago about a very rich, very determined man who is convinced he's got a plan...
October Story Time, Week 4: "Turn"
Here's A Thought - October 25, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. There's a lot of thought and discussion about the three aspects of the feminine: the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. All three have their positive and negative aspects, but in our youth-obsessed culture, a lot of women find it very, very painful to relinquish their yo...
October Story Time, Week 3: "Imp"
Here's A Thought - October 18, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. For the third installment in our Halloween-ish story series — all written by yours truly — we consider the question: do devils and demons ever take a day off? And if they do, how do they spend it? Episode Music by SPmusic from Pixabay Support the Show. Do you have c...
October Story Time, Week 2: "Sweet Boy"
Here's A Thought - October 11, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It's the haunting season, which makes this a suitable time for another short, twisted tale written by yours truly — in one of my darker moods. This one is a tale in rhyming verse. That doesn't mean it's nice, but you may find it . . . satisfying. Settle back and give ...
October Story Time, Week 1: "Corpse Pose"
Here's A Thought - October 04, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. To honor the fall of the year — the time when the veil between the worlds of the seen and unseen grows ever thinner with each passing, lengthening night — Here's A Thought offers a series of short, somewhat twisted stories, all written by me, that I hope you'll find suit...
Nobody Put the Fun in Funerals (But We Go Anyway)
Here's A Thought - September 27, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. There are some things in life that are just the thing to do, even when we don't relish the thought of doing them. Going to funerals probably ranks below even paying taxes. And in a lot of cases, if we just don't go, who's going to know? In this episode, we consider how ...
My Embarrassing Confession
Here's A Thought - September 20, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. I've developed a strange compulsion. Maybe telling you about it will help. And maybe, just maybe, you've got a compulsion not all different from this one. All I ask is that you don't judge me until you've heard me out . . . For information on the Pudelpointer dog br...
I'm Not Trending And That Makes Me Happy
Here's A Thought - September 13, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. With the turn of the seasons, it's time to revisit my wardrobe, which leads me to consider fashion (intimidating), and then fashion trends (mystifying), and from there, trends in general — especially popular culture trends. What I notice is that very few of them have an...
Going On Safari Changed Me Forever (and I'm Glad)
Here's A Thought - September 06, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome back! I've been on hiatus, and I've had some adventures to share. My trip to Kenya was a lifelong dream. I came home with a perspective that will never be the same — and questions I didn't expect. I invite you to spend a few minutes going on safari with me! In...
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