I recently went to three graduations from 5th, 8th and 12th grades. If you know about “Maycember” then you know I also went to a myriad of other events and recitals as well. For the events that I managed to listen to any portion of the speakers I heard a lot of messages telling the…
Being the mother of a teenage daughter is hard. I’m sure I heard an “AMEN” just now. But honestly, it is. You see them making mistakes and you wish so hard to save them from the pain. All the pain, really. The pain they cause themselves, the pain others inflict on them, and also the…
This is such a hot button topic for parents these days. I think we all understand that it’s not great for us as adults therefore, not awesome for our less wise children. The problem here is KEEPING THEM FROM IT. These kids are smart. I could tell you some pretty impressive stories of my kids…
I am an 8 on the Enneagram and if you know what that means you’ll understand when I say I don’t like difficult feelings. I know that no one really likes to be sad but I have friends that are much better at it than me. I have a way of closing “Sad” up in…
The church has a special place in my heart. I think it has great value and love what it does for people – as long as it is a healthy church. I also believe that healthy people need to be the product of a church. If a church is not helping people become more healthy…
It came to my attention that I find it particularly difficult to forgive someone who I don’t personally know. This sounds a little odd, but if you think about it, this happens pretty frequently in life; someone you don’t know doing something to hurt you. When I took the time to try and forgive my…
During my divorce, my finances became very scary, which I’m sure no one is exempt from. As a way of both padding my income and using up my weekends without kids (to keep the sad loneliness to a minimum) I got a few part-time jobs. One was delivering groceries with Shipt (I figured I’m a…
Recovery is a weird word. It can mean so many things in so many directions. I am thinking about recovery from “The D word” or divorce, which is a mixed bag. You are recovering from things you did to yourself and things someone did to you. You are recovering from a death (of the marriage…
Writing about this topic was challenging. It took me a long while to feel like I could even write these things in ways that made sense or was helpful to others. I also did not want to publicly “air my dirty laundry” i.e. give out personal details that would be embarrassing to me and my…
So recently, I had a pretty major shoulder surgery to repair some torn things. Honestly, I figured I’d beat the 3-4 weeks in a sling and 12 weeks of PT because, you know, I’m an overachiever. I went into the surgery very healthy and in fairly decent shape so I felt that the odds were…
