This birthday was a big one for me–No I did not turn 60 yet! However, my mom’s 57th year of life was probably one of her most difficult and believe me she had some difficult years.  This was the year that the entire rest of her life changed into something she was not expecting.  Her…

I never had a problem with a Christmas hangover.  By the time Christmas was over I was pretty much over it and I always looked forward to New Years Eve and our annual card game with our friends and my cousin Mary.  Going back to work after break was a bummer but then my birthday…

Why am I sharing a personal message to my husband with all of you?  My hope is that men will understand that menopause is not just a women’s issue and that they can and should be a part of making menopause something that women don’t just survive but thrive through. Did you know that divorce…

“Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you. Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self.”   ~Oprah Winfrey In my last blog I told you that I have been busy with my new “job”.  Retirement is definitely a transition and Don and…

My apologies for the time since my last post but it was a busy summer, I have been working my new “job”, which I will tell you about in my next post, and I have been busy with another writing project which I want to tell you about today. How much do you know or…

Okay. . .I think I lied.  This might go into more than Part 3 because I have learned so much over the past 8 months that I don’t think I can include it all in this last blog.  I will see how lengthy this one gets. So we came home from the LA trip in…

I told you that I needed to write about this subject in 3 parts because there is so much to say and I did not want to get too long with each blog.  This second one has to do with my emotional and cognitive struggles over the last few years. As women, we go through…

I know it has been awhile since my last blog and there are other subjects I could have written about but there has been a topic that I have been wanting to write about for quite some time but wanted to get some results regarding my journey before I wrote.  I just read that back…

“I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”—Maya Angelou Today is my brother’s 63rd birthday.  And as I have done with my other birthday blogs this past year I am going…

So it is almost a year since I started this blog.  I am proud of myself that I have continued to write and it truly has helped me.  I just went back and reread my first post and it still remains true that writing really calms me and this past year I have had to…