Thank God for girlfriends! Aside from my usual right arms, I’m in a bookclub with four amazing women, helping me navigate through another edition of Brenee Brown’s instructions on wholehearted living, “The Gifts of Imperfection”. If anyone is ever interested, I’d highly recommend getting a bunch of gals together, ones you trust and can be
It’s funny – it’s hard sometimes to really identify the passage of time, other than the changing numbers on our cell phone screens or page turns in our (well MY “kicking it old school”) daily planner. We don’t really notice how each passing day brings about a small ounce of change that eventually all amalgamates
I LOVE the magic of a new year. As cliché as it may sound, the start of a new year always feels like a new beginning for me. Truth be told, 2018 was annoootthher tough year to get through. It’s funny how many others have shared that same sentiment with me. But what would this
I worry sometimes that I inflate things. That I make mountains out of molehills or spend too much time analyzing heart stuff with my head – and the truth is, not all heart matters can be contained (well actually restrained) by words…but this is just me, experiencing this world though my emotions first then perfecting
I feel like I’ve been at a stand still for some time now…almost like an emotional or spiritual paralysis…not like an intentional resistance to move on more like an involuntary unsureness of now what…now where? “Midlife Malaise” (a term from a book a girlfriend recently recommended). There are probably pinnacle times in life when we
It’s time to take a heart inventory – it has been a friggin long ass winter and I know somewhere in the last while, I’ve shut down my intentionality and have been coasting on auto pilot just trying to get through this season. I know on a deep level I’ve been feeling somewhat spent, tired,
I hope I’m one of those “happy” old people…one of those seniors that you run into at the grocery store who meet you with a smile, laugh with the clerks and forgive their own stumbles. The ones who feel warm and don’t seem to take themselves too seriously. OMGSH HOW??? How did you possibly live
I’m a big dreamer…a big plans kinda gal. My daily to do list and my “one day” to do list are both miles and miles long. One has vacuuming and grocery shopping while the other has things like write a book and take a sewing class. Although I’m usually chasing these plans and trying to
Truth be told, my husband and I had a not so fairytale start together. Despite our crazy chemistry we were absolute opposites in EVERYTHING – you name it, we were on opposing ends of it! Our connection was entirely irrational and definitely unreasonable. But despite our differences, we were unexplainably drawn to each other from
Wow, I’m sure glad this year is winding down. It just hasn’t felt like a great year. Sure it wasn’t alllllll negative, but this year in general feels like it leaves me with a ‘good riddance’ kind of feeling. Our fertility efforts failed this year. Yes, truth be told I wasn’t gung ho on getting pregnant.