Love
Becoming real
“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. …’It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It
Can you still find happiness when your heart is broken?
Happiness is a concept I’ve been struggling with lately…for the past six months, anyway. Funny…I thought I’d experienced unhappiness before in my life. But now I think anything that’s fixable
Getting enough love? Or giving enough?
I used to wonder if I got enough love. There’s a line in the movie, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, where the main character asks her dad if he
Stories I tell myself
Funny how pride can trip you up. Funny how it can blind you to reality, especially when part of what you’re proud of is that you always live in reality.
Love is
Love is perhaps the most over-used and least understood word in any language. And today, Valentine’s Day, it is especially overworked. Love is the key word in all the cards
Chooser
I often write about the challenges of life at my stage: empty-nester, part-time worker, full-time budding entrepreneur, wife, mom to young adults, grandparent, daughter, friend. The intent is to share
Love is
Love is many things and comes in many forms. On this day, Valentine’s, there’s no escaping the commercial message. While I don’t get excited about the day myself, (my personal take) there
Imagine – how would you change?
I was catching up on blog posts this afternoon and came across this video of a TED talk given by one of the passengers from the flight that landed in
Do you bemember?
We recently spent a weekend in Seattle with Stephanie and Matt and their little ones. I’m enchanted watching Riley and Jack, listening to three-year-old Riley chatter away, and baby Jack’s
Happy day
Today is a happy day. This is our 32nd anniversary. Not a particularly noteworthy number; but though the number itself isn’t special, this year had its own markers that make
Learning to write, learning to hear
Rob and I are learning a new skill. At 31+ years of marriage, we are learning a new way to communicate. For all the good that we’ve shared, we’ve had
Healing on a beach
We came down to Mexico last week…an escape from late winter in SE Alaska, and a chance to see the sun and feel the warmth of a breeze instead of