Midlife
I have a dream (maybe, kinda, sorta?)
November 22, 2019
I don't have the same conviction I once did about dreams and pursuing dreams. Maybe it's just middle age.
The hidden work of nurturer, caregiver, mother, healer, and homemaker
November 15, 2019
Maybe in our openness to another's experience, to listen without selfish purpose or aim, we can make a hallow space for our common dreams, hopes and joys; fears, feelings of inadequacy, and struggles.
Second Bloom Conversation with Bethany Lee
October 4, 2019
“I didn't have to be the center of my family life anymore and I didn't get to be the center”.
Second Bloom: transitions to new midlife vocations from mothering and homeschooling (a conversation series)
October 3, 2019
What can I learn from the stories of other women's journeys across the threshold of full time mother, homemaker and homeschooler into second half of life careers? What secrets might I glean? What wisdom or insight might I be able to apply to my own life and situation?
The point of processing
September 9, 2019
Two big things are happening in life right now, the kids are leaving childhood and I'm actively preparing to launch a second career. And my writing has been a tool to process both of those changes, to chart the landscape at the unknown edges of my map.
Wrapping things up
August 21, 2019
On these late summer days, as blackening red drupes weigh down the chokecherry boughs and the pears hang like pendants on the neighbor's tree, everything ripening and suspended, it feels like a holding year. Waiting for next thing to start, but knowing we won't get there till we finish this first.
It's not the same, so now what? (an anniversary post, part 2)
August 15, 2019
This is the kind of marriage I celebrate on our 23rd anniversary. One that grows and changes. Where a life is built, and children are raised, dreams are cast and pursued, and sometimes abandoned.
