THE BLOG
This past spring, I was juggling a lot.
We women in this community juggle a lot every day, but it was one of those times where several major things were thrown at Chris and I...
This is something that I hear every single day from women in this community. Truth be told, I've even been known to utter the phrase myself.
Life was going along great! I had found as much of a stride and balance as I possibly could between my various roles which included:
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine who was only 48 years old, woke with a blood clot in her leg. She died two weeks later.
She was young, vibrant, active and seemingly...
As we start to think about redefining after 50, we typically think about what it is we WANT to do moving forward, rather than what we might be leaving behind as we move forward. And this makes...
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’d like to say in this post as we round out 2020 and move forward into 2021. I’m reflecting on the year in my world and wow. It’s really...
I’ve been posting quite a bit on Life Balance After 50 on the topic of women redefining after age 50. And it’s often involved major redefinitions.
It has affected me and my family at various levels throughout different...
As I drove home in February from moving my mom to be closer to us, I listened to an audible book called “Do It Scared” and it got me thinking. I’d always put my family first and...
I was driving home from a week long visit with my son and his family and feeling kind of blah. It’s October and we continue to be in the middle of a global pandemic. I had been looking...
We all have our “thing” that we do that seems to defy our outward persona. Others might look at us funny when they learn of it, but we simply respond with a smile and something down the...
I woke up that fateful day in March to a panicked group of parents and co-workers. I work with kids on the autism spectrum and at 4 o’clock that morning, our county schools suddenly made the...