If you’ve spent the time this month with us, you will have gleaned many, many decades of well worn counsel and advice from some of your closest friends — this side of the Rockies and that side of the Mississippi. From the east to the west and all around the globe, it’s safe to say […]
When you’re in the thick of things, it’s truly hard to conceive the passing of time — so that it feels like it’s more on your side. When waiting for your turn in the TSA line at the airport, you’re focused on getting to your flight and finding your seat on the plane; then you’re […]
I would like to think that beneath my everyday sweatshirt, hoodie and t-shirt my supermom cape always soaked up the perspiration from the commotion of the daily grind. Under the façade of calm and collectedness, lay a thin membrane of “I-have-no-idea-what-I’m-doing.” And like a hidden camisole that smoothed out the imperfections below the outer surface, […]
Trust issues … we’ve all got ’em. In some form or other, we are wrestling with our own decision to hold onto an answer that will put an end to all questions. Yes, we are battling the decision to choose between two offerings. We stand at the intersection of those two roads, vacillating between the […]
Life can feel so unfair at times. And if we’re not careful to put those things in their proper place, into the Hands that hold us together when we are about to fall apart, we can mistakenly get distracted by wayward thoughts and go off a deep end. There’s no explaining the ‘whys’ of infertility, […]
Looking in the rearview mirror at the roads traveled during the early days when my children were younger, I can utter under my breath the familiar, “If I only knew then, what I know today …” And not to say that I fully wrap my arms around a lifetime of should haves, could haves or […]
When my children were growing up and I was managing an “outside of the home paid job” (some of y’all will be able to relate to how I just described that), life was shall we say, often a tad bit chaotic — but in a productive way. Yes, the dishes sat in the sink a […]
