For years now, I have come to trust in my ability to overcome setbacks at many levels. I think it would be rare to find a 52 year old woman out there who has not suffered or experienced intense loss, transition, or setbacks and overcome them. Somehow time would pass....
I sat in my Toyota Sienna with the windows up, the key in the ignition, and the humid Missouri heat building outside. I took a deep breath, held it a bit and started the engine. In a second or two, gloriously cool air blew through the space and I let out a sigh of...
“When you take time and space from a passion, work, project…and then return to it, your perspective has changed. You see it in a whole new light and sometimes that’s all it takes to move forward.” Let me tell you the story of a rice bag… I loved embroidery as a young...
I've had an inner critic in my mind since childhood, cautioning me about what I eat, long before I understood where that voice came from. I inherited genes from my family that predisposes me to gain weight easily. While growing up, I watched the women on one side of...
This is going to be really hard to share. I'm sharing it anyway. Midlife overwhelm is real, and somewhere in the writing, I'm hoping to convince myself it was okay, that I was okay, even when I really wasn't. There was a lot of build up before our momentous trip to...
They accumulate in the corners of our minds and homes: skills, experiences, dog-eared books, fragments of inspiration. What if these things aren’t random clutter, but whispers of something more significant taking shape. Have you ever felt that familiar midlife...
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