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Playing house, making lemonade, and settling in wherever…
Since leaving New Jersey in late May, we’ve been bouncing around quite a bit. As a serial nester, I try to make every temporary spot comfy and cozy. I bring quilts and pillows and all the transportable trappings of home that I can negotiate into the car. As soon as…
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Women, wild and wonderful, wondering and willful. Worthy.
I think, as women, we often shaped our identities based on, not just our moms and mom figures, but on the ladies who lit up our televisions every night. I was born in 1970, so my early days were wrapped up in Laura Ingalls Wilder type stories, imagining my life…
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Isolation Nation
I’m going to start with a sort of disclaimer, a caveat, a reader beware. I have a lot of issues with public education. Having worked as an educator for 25 years, I have seen everything that’s right and wrong with the institution. Still, it is an institution and, in its…
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The Look and Lack of Leadership
Over the past few months, since I retired and stepped away from other longterm endeavors, I’ve been thinking about leadership and leaders more often than I imagined. I find myself considering what leadership looks like and sounds like, who is getting it right, who is learning as they go, and…
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Summer and my lonely soul
First, I think I must say that my thoughts are more than a bit disheveled on this topic. I need to take myself through them and around them, and I’m dragging you along. Maybe something will resonate for you and maybe you’ll just step away thinking that I have too…
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The lost art of the Sunday drive
From our earliest dating days, Jim and I have loved road trips. After dating only about two months, we road tripped from Iron Mountain, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula, through OshKosh, Wisconsin (because I had to buy overalls there), and back down to Bloomington, Indiana, where we now reside, 32…
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Saturday morning randomisms…
I’m sitting in my soon to be demolished kitchen, eating puffy Cheetos, drinking unsweetened black iced tea, and appreciating, now that I am done with Paxlovid, the taste of these things, as opposed to the rusty pennies that is a side effect of the drug. It’s quite nice. We have…
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Assuming the worst, instead of the best
This is a topic with which I am awfully familiar. I have written about it before. I have experienced it before, as the person of whom the worst was assumed. And, in the interest of sheer honesty, I have done the assuming. We all have. We’ve all been on both…
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Cancer, the gift that keeps on giving.
In October of 2020, I was diagnosed with breast cancer—two different types of tumors in my left breast, because I am an overachiever. Also, I like to have major life events during pandemics and things like that. It makes it ever so much more interesting, not to mention the convenience…
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Is aging ever really graceful?
I was talking to a friend the other day. I’ve known her more than 30 years, having met during the pageant time of our lives. She is easily one of the most stunningly beautiful humans I have ever known—inside and out. I don’t think I could accurately describe how exquisite…
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