Let the story of who you were send shivers down the spines of our granddaughters. Let them hear about you…
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A baby cries in the night, and you go to pick him up. What were you going to do, take a book off a shelf and read what some expert has to say?
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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. A time to be born and a time to die…
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Every story begins inside a story that’s already begun by others. Long before we take our first breath, there’s a plot well underway…
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My name was stolen from me at birth. My parents had chosen a name for me, but wanted to keep it secret until my birth.…
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A few years back I shared a quote from my bulletin board with a client I was mentoring. Curiously, she asked me, what else do you have on your bulletin board?…
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Twenty-five years ago I purchased a copy of Goodbye Mother, Hello Woman feeling the need to learn more about mother-daughter relationships…
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Twice last week I was asked my occupation, and for the first time since I wrapped up my last consulting contract in January, I said I was retired. It was not easy to say…
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David Whyte has a new book of poetry coming out, Still Possible, a title which he says perhaps speaks to all of us at every threshold in our lives, and most particularly in this time…
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I am huddled in an Adirondack chair on the deck of our island home kept warm by my flannel nightgown and my husband’s hoodie, my quilt wrapped tight around me…
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Thirteen years ago today, I bought the convertible VW bug featured in the photo as an early 50th birthday present to myself….
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These days I am feeling the depth of my friendships. I can count my closest friends on two hands – you know who you are. Then there is this broader circle of women who I also call my friends…
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My mother has been riding a medical rollercoaster this week and I have been along for the ride. It is time for a break…
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I am already awake this morning, even though the sky is still dark and the hallways are silent. I woke up on my mother’s couch this morning, stiff, tired, and with a vague headache…
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The point of the needle is drawn toward the north because it feels a magnetic attraction to north. That’s all the compass does for you. North is the only thing it reveals. What you do in relation to that knowledge is up to you…
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Fascinating, isn’t it, that when we are young, an age difference of a few years can feel like a lifetime? Yet as we get older, those years meld into a continuum of shared values and experiences and our actual birth year doesn’t matter as much.
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I feel like I need to start this blog post with a disclaimer – this post is about YOU! I have shared in past posts that I am primarily writing this blog for me. But…
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This week’s blog post started with a snippet from a Super Soul Sunday episode. Oprah asks Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopalian priest, and author of thirteen books on spirituality, “What steeps your soul”?
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I’m chuckling to myself as I write this blog post title because I am imagining your curiosity, maybe tinged with a bit of sensationalism as you wonder…
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Early on Tuesday morning, I heard through the rumour mill that our medical health officer would be announcing a phased easing of restrictions. Bliss! Then, in the blink of an eye, the anticipation of life returning to normal was shot to hell!
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