Musings by Tulis

And not for nothin’ but my dad was the guy who showed up when I dislocated my knee, sprained my ankle, sliced my hand open on a broken jar, fractured my wrist – and oh year, cracked up more than one car. He was the guy who knew exactly what to do when I was in a pickle – which happened more than once. Continue reading My Monday Musing ~ My Dad Was An April Fool ~ Revisited at Musings by Tulis.

Wouldn’t get too comfortable on that bar stool if I was you pal – another round is not a good idea. Continue reading My Monday Musing – Free Advice Anyone? at Musings by Tulis.

First of all I did NOT break the cookie jar. And I know you don’t believe me because you never believe me, which is so totally unfair. I don’t even like cookies so why would I be even near there? I wasn’t near the cookie jar. I wasn’t even in the house. Continue reading My Monday Musing ~ Who Broke The Cookie Jar? ~ Listen UP! at Musings by Tulis.

What I am looking at here is, I think, a real money maker. A resort called The GetAway. The slogan would be "Get Away from everything – including you.” Because that is what it would be, a place to get away from yourself. Am I right? Continue reading My Monday Musing ~ The GetAway at Musings by Tulis.

Aging is a change we don’t notice until we do. And we are selective in our noticing. Continue reading Aging – What Changes and What Stays The Same ~ March 4, 2024 at Musings by Tulis.

...when we don’t thank someone, we are breaking a circuit. If someone gives you something they are sending you energy, an electrical current, and if you don’t acknowledge it is as if you are leaving a live wire out there dangling in the wind, which is not only a waste of energy but a little bit dangerous. Continue reading “Thank You”- Never A Bad Idea ~February 26, 2024 at Musings by T...

There are times that I feel as though I am not alone in here, in this life and in this body. On those days my life feels like an internal day care center. A day care center on a ranch in Nowhere Montana or Wyoming or some other state that has the Big Sky. Continue reading Life Is A Day Care Center ~ Monday, February 19, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

I was only 6 but I knew when things were right and when they were not right, and this girl could not have the same birthday as me because that was not right. Continue reading Share My Birthday? I Don’t Think So ~ Monday, February 12, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

I forgot my Musing on Monday February 5. Then forgot that I forgot! Woo Hoo! Continue reading Celebrating “I Forgot Day” ~ Tuesday, February 6, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

LIKE is not a filler to slip in when you don’t trust the silence between your words. Let me give you a hot tip here: Silence is much more intriguing to your listener than the word LIKE dribbled throughout your speech like a sour perfume. REMEMBER What comes out of your mouth is as important as what goes in. Continue reading Like…Like…Like, Right? ~ Monday, January 29, 2023 at Musings b...

And you may be staying put because life has just taken a swing at you and connected. Life is overwhelming or depressing or scary or anxiety making. And you need a pick me up. So how about this - you airlift yourself up using your jet pack and you go visit these smoke signals memories and you pick out the really good memory bits as if you are pulling clean socks out of a laundry basket. Continue re...

Things are gently sliding back to the way they were. You know, the good old days where the people in the audience and the people on stage were white and the ticket prices were so high that people went into debt to afford them. Continue reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday – A Holiday In Deed? Not Quite. at Musings by Tulis.

Continue reading Give January A Break ~ Monday, January 8, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

Continue reading Reflections on The New Year and The Dark ~ Monday, January 1, 2024 at Musings by Tulis.

The Metropolitan Museum is many things to many people. Artistic oasis, a way to pass the time, day-care, rejuvenator, obligation, neutral ground for those awkward discussions, hidden fish. Pop in – trust me. You will be entertained. You might also like the artwork. Continue reading Christmas at the MET ~ Monday, December 25, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

Lookk I don't know where hope comes from. I just know it is real because every Christmas Eve I go to bed and listen. And every Christmas Eve I am prety sure I fall asleep to the sound of sleigh bells. Listen... listen... listen... Can you hear? Continue reading Jesus v. Santa ~ Monday, December 18, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

Watching “The Wizard of Oz” as an adult, I have concluded that OZ belongs to Toto not Dorothy – like “Cinderella” belongs to Gus-Gus. But that’s a story for another time. Continue reading TOTO TOO ~ Monday December 11, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

My parents were a little nutty on account of having lived 30 or so years without a break. Born in the 20’s, lived through the Depression and WWII, then marriage and then kids. And they had to be alive that whole time. Can you imagine doing anything, other than breathing, for 30 years without a break? Continue reading The Case For Taking A Break From Your Life ~ Monday, December 4, 2023 at Musings...

A tip on how to lose friends and not influence people or influence them in the way you didn’t mean to. It is so easy. Attack the Library. Not just any library. Attack the Lion Library – that is what we call it. Where the two lions – Patience and Fortitude – keep watch. Continue reading How To Shoot Yourself In The Foot ~ Monday, November 27, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

Something people may not know about turkeys of the wild sort is that they are tricky – disposition wise. Live near a wild turkey and you take your chances. They consider themselves noble and above your pay grade. Continue reading Turkeys Revisited ~ Monday, November 20, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

Cousins are an odd lot. Not as close as siblings, which can be a good thing because there is less baggage. They show up on special occasions most of which are pretty good – summer holidays, weddings, even funerals can be good for a few laughs. You share invisible strings that are attached at a very young age with a gentle touch. So gentle that you don’t know they are there until someone tugs at th...

That is the thing about sorting. It makes everything so messy. Yesterday I spent 30 minutes looking for an old photo of me and when I found it the THIRD time, I taped it to the wall. Continue reading Sorting The Past With An Eye To The Future ~ Monday, November 6, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

I met a man at a party the other day who said he tries to get in 8 miles a day. Three in the morning and five in the afternoon. THAT brough me up short. How was that even possible I asked. Oh, simple he said – We (he and his dog) walk from 122 Street down to the reservoir and back. Reservoir? I thought. There is a reservoir in New York? Continue reading The Artist’s Way (Continued) ~ Pace Yo...

It’s not that I hated turnip. I didn’t hate it. Turnip made me gag. There is a difference. Continue reading Turnip As Torture ~ Monday, October 23, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.

It will not do for me to be hopeless and less-than. It will not do for me to decide that things are on a downhill journey that is impossible to rectify. It will not do to be friends with disappointment. Continue reading The Artist’s Way: A Hail Mary Pass ~ Monday October 16, 2023 at Musings by Tulis.