In honor of Valentine’s Day, a different kind of love story… We are in the midst of my elder son’s end-of-season 8th grade basketball tournament. My son played his first game last week. They were up against another team we’d heard about, but hadn’t yet played. This other team was the underdog. My son’s team […]
Thank you so much to William Henry for the opportunity to step way outside my comfort zone to chat with him on his Be Better World podcast. Yikes! It was scary to step out from behind my keyboard, but William is a pro and made it so easy! Check out Be Better World for inspiration […]
I was absolutely shocked by the reader response to my post, “Deal With It,” in which I gave a stream of conscious list of who I really am, unfiltered. Thank you to everyone who replied to the post, and to all those who messaged me privately with their own Deal With It lists. I am […]
Phew! Life got heavy again. Was it ever not in the past 12 months? Maybe not. But I got really stuck there for the past week. It just hurt. And I had big things to say. Now it is time for me to reset, because otherwise I will remain submerged in the deep dark, and […]
It’s a familiar scene in movies and tv shows… One character calls another after an argument, and as soon as the other person answers, they start their call with, “Please don’t hang up!” That is how I feel as I start this post. I am begging you, please don’t hang up. Please hang in there […]
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.”-Tomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man Aside from a few stumbles into the muck this past summer, I am not one to speak up about politics. As soon as you take a stand for or against any given candidate or issue, you lose half your […]