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 […]