What support says.
I was lucky enough to know and love both of my grandmas, and a step-grandma, before they died. I don’t take that time, or them, for granted. I was also lucky enough to be able to choose a grandma. The one I chose was named Brownie. I met her in 1988 and for 22 years, […]
I’m not good at it. And it’s scary.
I always tell people “We grew up riding motorcycles” – which is true. Kind of. We had several motorcycles, and most of us rode them. It’s just that some of us rode them better than others. My dad built a second garage behind our house so we had an upper driveway and a lower one, […]
“What’s the hold-up?”
On one of our recent trips, my husband and I were about to get on a hotel escalator to head down to a restaurant in the lobby. Except we couldn’t. There was a traffic jam of sorts in front of us. He went ahead to see what was going on – of course he did. […]
Offering Relief.
When I was in junior high, I had a period of several weeks where I couldn’t sleep. I could probably dive back into my journals from that time to figure out what was going on, but my now much older self doesn’t remember the details. What I do remember is that I would go find […]
Let’s do hard.
Emily P. Freeman calls it life-draining vs. life-giving. Russ Harris calls it vitality draining vs. life enhancing. And Jody Moore calls it just plain 50/50. Emily says it in relation to activities on your list, i.e. look back with intention and get rid of some of the life-draining stuff to make room for more life-giving […]
