“We both were in transition and neither of us knew the right way to move toward our new adult relationship.” Raising teens changes the relationship in increments so small you don’t notice until it’s unrecognizable from those sweet early years. By the time my son was...
A photo journal prompt waits for you at the end. Our bodies feel and carry what our minds cannot always name. Bessel van der Kolk's research confirms what many midlife women already sense in their own experience (2014). When I found a lost little boy in my alley and...
It was a beautiful Saturday morning, the kind that arrives with clarity in what to do and time to do it. For once, I felt in control of my day and sure of its purpose. Every midlife caregiver knows what came next. And then my phone rang. An emergency at my dad's...
"My solo trip cracked me open. I know I had to get that far away from myself and my life…to go to the end of myself in order to find myself again." The morning after I arrived home from Madrid, I stood in the kitchen after the family left and suddenly, without...
One look can take you from pride to shame. The look that happens when someone you love sees something you created and love for the first time and reflects back that self-doubt you feel inside. Maybe they don’t mean to diminish your work or ideas, but you catch the...
Do you have a special quiet space to go to when you need time to think? Is it a space in your house, a place to walk, or a state of mind? This is mine. I worked and fought for it these past few years, in a way. Not really “fought”, but I have had to use passive...
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