Category Archives: Midlife and Beyond

Relationships: A Year-&-a-Half-Plus of Loving & Learning

Relationships: A Year-&-a-Half-Plus of Loving & Learning

As we approach 2021 with held breath and fingers crossed, I’ve compiled a series of mostly Facebook posts that I wrote between January 2019 and April 2020 and publishing them here. I’ve been wanting to do this for some time. The feedback received was that they resonated with folks. They’re personal history/personal essays on relationships… Continue Reading

Pandemic Reinvention: Grace in the Time of Corona

Pandemic Reinvention: Grace in the Time of Corona

I don’t know who is the woman pictured to the left of me. Probably a model. Whomever she is, she inspired me enough to screenshoot her photo last January. I discovered her image yesterday while searching for the photo of Grace and I that bedecked this blog post. The picture I searched for was taken… Continue Reading

Loving What Is: Grace in the Time of Corona

Loving What Is: Grace in the Time of Corona

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Oscar Wilde Increasingly, autism research produces “aha” moments for the scientific community. And, as a recent joint study from University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Virginia found, many, if not most, mothers of loved ones with autism… Continue Reading

Loving Ourselves: Grace in the Time of Corona

Loving Ourselves: Grace in the Time of Corona

Yet another female friend of “larger body proportions” has inspired me with an authentic social media post about loving the all of herself. This was my reply turned blog post. When I cut off my blonde curls and went silver and steel, a friend from college that lives half the country away reached out to… Continue Reading

5-Book Holiday Giveaway-Plus: Grace in the Time of Corona

5-Book Holiday Giveaway-Plus: Grace in the Time of Corona

  COVID Self-Care 101 = Read a good book! A free book to five lucky winners from yours truly. Happy Holidays! …Nashville is, of course, known for its musical prowess. For several years when I moved back here and answered the “what do you do” question, I’d have to respond: No! Not that kind of… Continue Reading