Note: This is the third in a series. Click to read posts one and two. Still Learning I started writing this article over two weeks ago. I pulled together treasured notes from my phone and journals, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get the words to come together. I knew the information […]
Empty Nest: Another Chance to Conquer Fear
I blew up last night. Anger burst up and out of me before I knew what happened. Sure, there was a trigger. Something that might frustrate anyone, although I don’t get frustrated so much anymore. But it threw me into orbit and I didn’t see it coming. And I would have never guessed that […]
10 Ways to Savor Life After Your Kids Leave Home
Eight years of living in my own empty nest, along with talking to other empty nest moms, has shown me we commonly fall into one of two ditches when the kids go off to college. Either we don’t feel like doing anything. Or we find ourselves on a hamster wheel of busyness. Whether you’re fighting […]
Please Stop the Noise
I love words. I love their deep meanings and how the gifted and the innocent string syllables together like raindrops on a clothesline for the sun to shine through and make tiny rainbows. I’m stunned how words — sometimes simple, sometimes dramatic — forever change the course of a moment, a life, a nation. They make and […]
Self-surgery
“Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for Him to act…” Psalm 37:7 Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is be still. Don’t move or speak or even think if it takes you down a rabbit trail of answers and questions and answers and questions. Those spirals may […]