lessons from a life half lived
There was a time I personally experienced the Bystander Effect. Keep reading. It’s a heckuva story. Trigger warning: If you’ve been bullied, this piece may make you anxious. My sophomore year of college, Jake and Wilbur lived in the same dorm as me, on the same floor. Since they both sported buzz cuts the color of straw, some folks assumed… Continue Reading…
Here to talk to you about hope after sexual abuse is victim advocate, Melanie Sachs. Trigger Warning: This post includes a description of sexual abuse. Hope is a word we often see or hear in many different contexts. What this word means to me goes beyond the definition you may find when you Google it, as I did. According to… Continue Reading…
“Better late than never,” as they say. In May 2022, my husband and I, and four other couples, finally made it to Scotland for a couples’ whisky tasting tour originally scheduled for 2020. I’d visited Scotland twice before, along with three of the women on this trip. Because both trips were fantastic, we decided to go again. With our men…. Continue Reading…
Ever since the fourth grade, I’ve known two things: I’d get counseling. I’d write a book. Twenty-ish years ago I accomplished the first thing, and last year I finally accomplished the second. Honestly, I never imagined my first project would be a children’s book. I always thought it would be my memoir. Or maybe a self-help book. I also had… Continue Reading…
