Say goodbye to your latency-aged child and say hello to your tween!
It happened this morning. I shared the list of rules that I had made up for Theo, our eleven year old son, with my mom. “Say goodbye to your latency aged child and say hello to your tween!” she chirped...
View ArticleSoon I’ll be 51 years old…
Theo is now eleven and big enough to ride in the front seat of the car. From there, he mans the XM radio like an Ibiza DJ spinning on multiple turntables. His favorite song right now is the beautiful...
View ArticleThe Power of “I don’t know”
My team and I recently had the privilege of attending a course on “Lean” management in healthcare. In a nutshell, Lean is the idea of making work processes visible and understandable, digging deep to...
View ArticleHow to Age to 100: Family, Friends, Faith, Forests, and Football
For this post, I have a guest contributor, my husband’s stepmother Georgiann Gibson. Georgiann is a positive ager herself, retired and traveling the world with my father-in-law Pat. She has written a...
View ArticleBeyond Valentines: Lessons from my relationship heroes
Today is Valentine’s Day: a day of hearts, flowers, chocolate and the hope for love. In our family, Valentine’s Day was always also a family holiday, where my mom gave each kid their own little gift....
View ArticleWatching the nest
This spring I was thrilled to have a robin return to the nest on our porch to lay her eggs. I had left the nest there with the hopes of this happening. The nest sits atop an IKEA mirror cabinet and...
View ArticleRunning down a dream
It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down I had the radio on, I was drivin’ Trees went by, me and Del were singin’ little Runaway I was flyin’ Yeah runnin’ down a dream That never would come to me...
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