Time Out While You Find Out
Do you find that facing the simplest medical procedures can often be the ones you find yourself worrying about the most? Over the last several years I have had an ingrown toe nail excised, a
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A Matter of Perspective
Today is my 66st birthday and I wasn’t going to write about it because, well frankly, the less said better. But then a friend sent me a little article that inspired me. The Friendly Societies
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When a Parental Push Becomes a Parental Piranha
I recently gave a talk to a group of mature and worldly ladies and was posed this question. “How do I get my 40 year old son to seek medical attention for chronic back pain?”
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What Do You See?
When I share the events that have led me to the ripe age of 65, many are wide eyed with amazement that I am not more crotchety, bitter, or as spirit-filled and energy-able as I
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Opening the Door to Living
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and…realizing you were the prisoner! – Max Lucado Our past has a way of influencing our future especially when it houses the hurts that foster habits
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Showing Me the Way
I find myself surrounded by women who show great faith and perseverance during catastrophic illness and/or end of life issues and I wonder how they do it. Could I have that kind of strength of
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Holiday Sanity Savers
This been a year like no other. How are you holding up? Are you feeling the holidays might be what puts you over the edge? Or maybe you feel like you need to escape the
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A Christmas Thought
This Christmas we find ourselves in a changing world. Maybe you’re like me wanting to hold onto things the way they were rather than moving on with our life as it is today. Maybe this
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With a Thankful Heart
As we gather at this time of sweet and savory aromas, family gatherings, and time of thanks it is difficult not to think of the challenges many have faced this year. I ask the Lord
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Wind the Cuckoo Clock of Life
Last night I got wonderful news about a friend of mine. The pathology from her recent surgery showed no spread of cancer and there is hope that the procedure is the cure. Weeks of worry
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Down Memory Lane
Do you ever have a desire to revisit or recreate a memory? During the COVID-19 Pandemic I have had time to take a trip down memory lane. And one such wonderings of my mind may
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It Only Happens to the Living
As I age I have become more fearful of all the things the world tells you to be worried about. And I am not talking about sagging breasts, crepe skin and droopy eyelids. What I
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