Tales from a Mid-Lifer

  • Choosing to Be a Hummingbird, Not a Vulture

    Yesterday, our pastor reminded us of the hummingbird and vulture comparison. As a new week begins, I’m flying over what is past, old, dead and ugly (representing the vulture). I choose to seek out what is sweet, thriving, alive and beautiful (representing the hummingbird). “You will find what you’re looking…

  • Take Heart…

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  • The Retail Apocalypse – Can Bath and Body Works Survive? Not If They Keep Bothering Us

    The bricks and mortar stores that try to sell an actual experience are still doing relatively well in the era where Amazon and other online retailers threaten store fronts across America. As part of L Brands (home to the ever-profitable Victoria’s Secret), Bath and Body Works is going strong. Yankee…

  • Wordless Wednesday – Autumn Trail

  • Gratitude

    Thank you, Lord…for everything.

  • We are Parenting PIONEERS

    We are Parenting PIONEERS

    “We” would be those of us who were the very first average citizens to log on to the new thing called aol.com back in the late 1990s on our clunky PCs. “We” are largely in our late 40s and early 50s with teenagers or young adult children. “We” are those…

  • Wordless Wednesday – Wow

  • Gratitude

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  • Unlike Most People, I’m Glad It’s Monday

    It’s seven weeks into the semester and I’m profoundly feeling the effects of the empty-nest. The weekends are the worst, especially Sunday evenings. Some Moms get through this easier than others, but I’m struggling. Saturdays were always slow mornings, since we went to church on Sundays. Breakfast, hanging out in…

  • Assuming Her Life Must Be Easy, But Really, It’s Not

    One of my friends (we’ll call her Hannah) has been slightly overweight all of her adult life. We never discussed it much as she never felt hindered by it, nor expressed desire to change it. Then, unexpectedly one day Hannah admitted to me that she had admired one woman in…

  • Wordless Wednesday – Creek to Falls

  • Why We Struggle to Respect Others’ Parenting Health Care Decisions-Microchipping is One Reason

    Why do we struggle to respect the health care choices other parents make for their children? I think the answer is: because “their decisions” potentially affect our own children. Several years ago, one of my students gave a presentation arguing against the use of VeriChip, which are microchip implants placed…