You know that feeling when something is tugging at your heart but you try to ignore it? An idea pops up that you've never had before--maybe you know what triggered it, maybe not--and you...
It's been a big year. I turned 50, sent my first kid to college, celebrated 20 years of marriage, drove a 30-foot RV through U.S. national parks, ran my first 10-mile race, and reached my...
Is there a right time or a wrong time to read about the death of a child? Anna Whiston-Donaldson's exquisitely crafted Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love came out several months ago. I...
My son comes home from college this week, his first visit since we moved him to Atlanta in August. It was an exciting beginning for him after a bittersweet end to his high school years. He...
"I unfortunately need to tell you that I have to pull out of the Army Ten Miler," my friend Donna wrote in an email on August 29th. It would have been our second race together. Last year,...
It's been years since I've cried this much. I don't like to cry. I'm perfectly comfortable with other people crying, but as the only female in a house seething with testosterone, crying...
Home two and a half days now, and still realigning. The laundry is done. The fridge is restocked. But I'm still getting my head refocused. For two weeks, during an RV trip through several...
Five years ago today, on June 10, 2009, I lay on an operating table with my arms immobilized in Velcro crucifix constraints forming perfect 90 degree angles from my torso. Salty tears slid...
Please excuse my absence. I've been trying to channel a chickadee for the past several weeks. Did you know that chickadees have retinas lined with receptors that are twice as dense as...
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post's (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn't size the photos...
Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a...
Does anybody else out there (male or female) have an inferiority complex when they watch the GE commercial that's been running during the U.S. coverage of the Olympics? It's the one with...