As many of you know, I have been going through a challenging time this year. It seems like one obstacle after the next and it’s been demoralizing, depressing and disorienting. I have lost confidence in myself and my body. Neither of these feel very good and I wouldn’t recommend trying either on for size. I…
Category: Life Lesson
Life Lesson: Finding Strength & Perspective
When you reach a certain age or you happen to exceed what you feel is an exorbitant number of unlucky life events you begin to understand some things about life. You realize that life is full; full of amazing and wonderful experiences laced with many challenges along the way. Our middle daughter seems to…
Life Lesson: Be Grateful For Your Siblings
While I am always grateful for my sisters, there are some weeks that I give a little extra thanks for the fact that they exist and always have my back. For example, on birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or any other gift-giving holiday I am exceedingly thankful that I have sisters and that…
Life Lesson: Friend-Making and Self-Promotion
Some of us are fast-friend makers and then there are people like me. I fancy myself akin to cilantro. People love me or they think of me like icky soap. There really is no in between. Possibly that’s an exaggeration but my name is on the blog so I can be hyperbolic if I choose,…
Life Lesson: Be You
When you get a group of women together who are thinkers; who are perpetually returning in some way to the question: Who Am I? You find that question drives one to find answers. Sometimes the answers that you find are good for 5 years, 5 minutes or can’t even last five seconds. Sometimes the answers…
Life Lesson: Writing A Book Isn’t For Sissies
Many of you have asked what it’s like to write a book. G talked a little bit about our experience when she let the cat out of the bag a few weeks ago. We thought we would share a little more about what the process of simply deciding to write a book was like for…
Lowi & G 