Love Your Friends Hard

If a younger woman were to ask me for advice on living a happy life, here’s what I would tell her: find yourself a friend, or a few, who you can be yourself with. It doesn’t much matter if they are an artist or an engineer, if they go to work or stay at...

Learning to Let Go

For years I wanted to be the mom who would create beautiful, healthy meals for my family. I subscribed to food magazines. I joined a recipe group. I saved piles of Food section clippings. Unfortunately, I don’t like to cook. I find the process messy and overwhelming...

Self-Acceptance

I used to LOVE New Years Resolutions. The shiny promise of a fresh, untainted new year, unfettered with my current failures of the year gone by. The anticipation made me positively giddy with optimism and hope. With a clean slate, anything would was possible. THIS...

Healing a Hurting Heart

I was talking with a friend yesterday about how much it hurts to feel left out, even at this stage of life. We were trading stories about moments of feeling like the odd one out. About how it happens at our kids’ soccer and baseball games and on Facebook much as it...