When we were young, we needed external validation. And hopefully, we got it. Along life’s journey, we turn to self-validation. But I think my ability to practice self-validation may have been stunted…
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Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary…
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Older women are forging the kind of partnerships they want because society now allows different types of relationships…
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He sleeps up next to me like he always does. Says it soothes his soul. But it’s my restlessness that gets calmed with his big old body next to mine.
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Managing my mental health is very nearly a full-time job. I don’t take it lightly, because the stakes are high. Like many of us, I have a mind that is a very dangerous neighbourhood…
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“It’s taken me nearly 60 years to learn how to hold steady when the world around me seems to be becoming more crazy. And, in the end, it’s a simple thing, really…”
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In Senegal, when a woman dies, they say her library has burned down. The volumes of stories, experiences, and memories stored in the mind and soul disappear….
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I have not yet read A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. The main character, Ove, is described as the bitter neighbour from hell…
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I have a joke with my sister, who I love very much…how will we recognize each other in an abstract life when we’ve lost our physical form?
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I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman or child…
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Ageism is a bigger problem for women than aging. Our bodies and our sexuality are devalued…
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Winds accompanies me as I row north. Heavy gales occasionally make me fearful on this journey. Luckily, I never have to contend with much more than a gentle breeze…
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My island bedroom has a door that opens directly onto our deck. I sleep with the door wide open almost every night. The other evening my daughter crawled in beside me. Listen, I said to her…
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Your growth is not about some destination far in the future; it’s about the little day to day changes that make you feel a little more joy, the ones that make you feel a little bit lighter, a little bit more of you.
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When you live a life, under any name, that life becomes entwined with others. You leave a trail of potential consequences…
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What if together we reshape, expand, and add on to the idea of the homemaker? A homemaker is anyone whose heart is in their home…
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Wisdom is one of the guiding themes behind Ageless Possibilities. What does that mean? It means I am a seeker of wisdom…
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The word quodophile is not in the dictionary. Yet, along with thousands of others, I am a quodophile, a lifetime collector of quotes…
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I woke to The Sometimes Newsletter, whimsical, random musings from Ella Frances Sanders. She wrote about things that were true for her last October that appear to remain true this October; and things that are more recently true. I curled up in my office to do the same…
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My response to a family emergency, a cancer diagnosis, or a friend suddenly on her own? I am calm and reliable…but the accumulation of little things exhausts me; all I want to do is hibernate until everything is resolved.
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