Having two daughters who are out of the house and living on their own gives me a lot more alone time but not necessarily free time. In fact, there are some weeks when I feel like I should keep my phone line open just in case they want to say, “and another thing…” as they…
Category: Life Lesson
Life Lesson: Addendum to Fast Friends
On Monday, I told you about my dumb luck or aptitude, however you would like to view it, for making fast friends. I wrote that blog prior to my flight home from Nashville and I would hate to leave this topic before mentioning that I have a newly adopted mother from India. It’s true. First…
Life Lesson: The Untended Friendship
I have become a novice gardener in the last few years. We started out with a few herbs and each year we’ve slowly added on, learned more and gotten better. Regardless of how much we know, or think we know, one thing remains true. No matter how much love and attention and “food” you give the…
Life Lesson: Unexpected Moments to Savor
Becoming happier, cultivating happiness, is something we all want, and at times work to do, to be. But our unexamined actions can push us away from our endeavor instead of drawing us closer. We brush off the compliment from a friend, we take for granted the luck at catching all green lights on our commute…
Life Lesson: They are Everywhere
All day I pondered which life lesson to write about. I mean there have been so many lessons just today that I am actually having a difficult time choosing. Here are just a few snippets of conversations that did lead to life lessons this week: No, don’t eat the chili I made 7 days ago! Unless, of…
Life Lesson: Social Media is the Virtual Bathroom Wall
When you decide that you are going to write a blog you can’t plan what will happen next. You’ve put yourself out there into the public medium for open critique. That can come back to you in all forms: some love it, some ignore you and others fall in the vast between spaces. It can…
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