Same Problem, New Day

I’ve been struggling with the same issue for over twenty years. I’m obsessed with it.  It’s what I write about in my journals. I complain to friends ad nauseam about it. And it has been the topic of more therapy sessions than I care to share.  Every time I talk about...

‘Tis the season . . .

      Now that Thanksgiving is over it’s full steam ahead to the next big holiday. And for me it’s even more complicated because all three of my children have birthdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So once I’m done with one...

grace

“I started a story one time about a woman who was living in a tree.  It seems she had accidentally moved there, having gone outdoors one day and just not wanted to go back in.  She liked living up higher and she liked that the tree cleaned itself.  She “grocery...

The Change

Things are changing. I can’t put my finger on specifically what it is. But I feel it when I wake up in the morning. I hear it in the rustle of the breeze through the trees. I see it in the color of the leaves. There’s a pregnant pause. A calm before the...

You Don’t Always Have to Choose

I’ve been reading a book called “One Person/Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career (Volume 1)” by Marci Alboher. I can’t recall where I heard about it, but the concept was intriguing enough for me to buy it. Much of the book contains narratives of...

siblings

I spent time Sunday with my siblings – two brothers and a sister.  We gathered in rural New Hampshire to spread what remained of my mother’s ashes in the old family cemetery across from our childhood home. The four of us stood together briefly under a mottled autumn...

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