Finding Home
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Chewing has become exhausting. I wish I had understood that decades ago when I made soup for my father.
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Is it really a home if it has a nightclub in it? A 10,000-bottle wine cellar? A beauty salon and juice bar?
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Thomas Rhett has a new song where he says, “It sure is good to be country again” and I’m struggling to understand what that means. What does it mean to…
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We must be careful with our words and actions, even when we are frustrated, angry, fearful, or sad. Because children are watching. They are watching al…
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Living – really living – is a perpetual act of suicide.
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 After a wedding, you are never really the same. Once we marry, a part of us is gone forever. Even as we embrace our new joined lives with joy, we need…
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When it's time for assisted living. In the end, it's easy to let go of things. Our parents may be more willing than we know to move on.
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Today is the birthday of Beatrix Potter, who reminds us that imagination can be the glue that binds us to home.
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Belonging Part 3
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My own story of belonging is both different from and similar to Brené Brown’s. I was an oddball, but then, so was my father. With him, I belonged. But …
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We all have a need to belong. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, belonging is smack in the middle of the pyramid, right there with love.
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teac…
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