Category: Aging Tales
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The Final Cut
Many of us have experienced disappointment in relationships. Being overlooked, unappreciated and stunningly disregarded can be painful. Such disappointments occasionally happen with people we invested in. Those we were determined to love and lift up, despite their less-than-desirable behavior. We do this because we’re Christ followers. Because Jesus was the…
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The Empty Nest Isn’t Empty
When I moved into our house in late November, I pulled one Ziploc snack bag from a new box of 50. Four months later, 49 remain. For over two decades, we needed three, 100-count back-up boxes of snack bags because I was packing lunches. My college kids shopped the pantry…
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Etiquette is Becoming Obsolete…Even at the Library
I love love and rarely watch a rom-com I don’t enjoy. But my affinity for love-stories does not carry over…
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The Everyday, Rarely-Instagrammed-Things
The Instagram version of life is enticing. Out there is better. The grass is greener. If we’re wise, we know that “out there” is right here: in the home, at work, during conversations. Time. Presence. Effort.
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Happy Galentine’s Day
A lady I just met (literally ten minutes earlier), randomly started discussing how difficult it was to work with other women.
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 