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Making ‘I love you’ One of Your Best Habits
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I pick my son Danny up from the house of a friend. The car is quiet. “I love you,” says Danny. He shakes his head back and forth with awareness of the words that have just left his mouth. “That’s a habit I picked up from you,” he says with some teenage agony. “One of…
I Want to Shine Again
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I am chatting with my friend “Trixie.” She tells me that she has met a few women lately who are re-emerging in their lives. “They are some bad-ass women,” says Trixie. “I want to be bad-ass again.” “I want to be bad-ass again, too,” I say back. I hang up the phone. Later I drive…
Can I Handle the Seasons of My Life?
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I drive towards town. The air is colder than the past few days and it suits my morning mood. I fiddle with the radio not able to find a song that I like. I hear the hypnotic voice of Stevie Nicks. She is singing “Landslide” and the car fills with more stillness than it already…
Marla and Me
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I hear a rumbling in my garage. No, it’s more like the pillaging sounds of a two hundred pound man. It’s late and right now it’s just my chocolate lab Hazel and me at home. Suddenly I am quite aware of my soon to be divorced – there is no one, but me to ‘check…
Paint Your Lips Red and Get Gutsy
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I sip coffee, pull the ponytail holder out of my hair and slide back in the chair. The stylist mixes the dye behind me. I am at Salon Bleu. It’s my favorite hair salon and one of my ‘happy’ places. I am comfortable here and have been a client so long these are also my…
10 Things I Tell My Children About High School
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I loved high school. It was a time of emerging independence, life innocence and forever friendships. A period of explosive emotional growth while my friends and I were growing comfortable in our own skin. It was football games and basketball and rugby. It was passing notes that we prayed weren’t intercepted by the guy we…
A Proud Irish Catholic Girl – Shamrocks, Blarney And Rainbows
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
My Nana and Grandpa left the shores of the Emerald Isle carrying their dreams and a bit of shamrocks, Blarney and rainbows with them. You might say, “the luck of the Irish.” Tommy and Rose McCaffrey fell in love state side. Tommy was a handsome, New York City cop. His heart so big that his…
Find People Who Live Their Lives ‘Both Ways’
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I flop onto my couch, put my computer on my lap and my cold pressed (carrot, cucumber, orange and ginger) juice on the table beside me. I start to watch television much like the rest of us do today, constantly distracted by my laptop. My eyes turn towards the fire fading in my fireplace. The…
Happy 21st Birthday to One of my Three Everything’s
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
It’s hot in Siesta Key, Florida. The water splashes up against the dock. The kids scurry past us. They jump onto the jet skis. “Hey,” yells my friend Lucy. “You are everything to me!” Lucy’s three kids look up and smile at their mom. They are anxious to hit the open seas. “Hey,” commands Lucy…
I Fell Down Farther Than Most to Help Others Get Up
By
Colleen Sheehy Orme
I love writing this column because not only is it cathartic for me, but because I can attempt to help some of the people in pain reaching out to me. I can tell them that I understand their heartache. It is true that marriage problems come in all different shapes and sizes. However, there is…
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