She was feeling momentarily good about life and loving towards us and decided to buy us all gifts. What book do you want mom? I was in a funk she knew nothing about, but at the time the answer was clear. I want this book I found on Amazon about…

As a child, we are given a set of standards to live by and traditions to follow. Teenage rebellion is often the first time we start to question those standards, but for many, it takes a lifetime before we unravel what we learned in the beginning. Growing up we are…

I heard someone say that we should only do enough in a day that we can recover from at night. I can modify my personal schedule to ensure I’m not adding on too much before and after work. Wait! I have an empty nest. My time is my own after…

As a child we have no frame of reference by which to judge the plethora of input we receive. Our minds are a sponge and soak up what they come in contact with. …

Some are saying we are headed into the Great Regret. Where employers see they hired too many employees and people regret changing jobs. The reasons why we changed jobs seem as ambiguous as the reasons behind spiking gas prices and supply shortages. Why does every world event end up with…

You picked up some habits in the name of mothering that are going to need unlearned if you are going to successfully embrace the empty nest and have any hope of building an amazing second half of life. This empty nest thing isn’t just about figuring out how to shift…

We fly in on a Friday and leave on Tuesday. My sister-in-law, who believes the world is all roses, and lives on Cat Steven’s Peace Train, smiles and says isn’t it great you get to travel and see the kids. I want to kick her teeth in, but think bad…

At the most basic level of all living things is the atom which is made up of two regions and within those regions are particles. A natural building block of life. The basic building block of life has parts. If it has parts won’t everything else. If the most basic…

The counselor ends the sessions by asking me if her unhappiness is catastrophic for me. I immediately think no it isn’t, yet I am 52 years old and in counseling to deal with issues I’ve had since childhood. I remember periods of life where I wouldn’t have had the time…