I heard someone say once: If I had a friend who lied to me as much as my thoughts do, I would not be friends with them.
Most people not only accept the stories in their heads as pure truth, but don't even know how to challenge them, using questions like:
How true is this?
What else might be true...
We got home to Pensacola late Saturday night and the first thing I noticed, even though it was dark, were the pears.
I planted this pear tree in my front yard 5 years ago, but the harvests have been underwhelming. I usually get a handful of pears, take a bite and toss them for any number of rea...
After a month on the road, Sam and I landed at my parents house in Southern Arizona, where on our first afternoon I took a two-hour nap.
I mean a pants off, under covers, wake-up-not-knowing-where-you-are kind of nap. Five stars. Highly recommend.
I'm not a napper though, and I didn't think I w...
It's been a roller coaster few weeks around here, and while I knew it would be, it didn't make the climbs and drops any easier.
In short, we left Wyoming a few weeks ago, with three horses, two dogs, a loaded truck and trailer and a camper. We set the circus down in Central New Mexico, where Sa...
I love reading people's favorite thing lists: books, restaurants, skin care, music etc. because they give me ideas I've never thought of.
So here's a list of five things I'm into right now that you might like too.
1. Memoirs. I've read four in the last month and I'm not sure why. Here they are b...
On one of my now-rare social media scrolls yesterday, I saw something that gave me much hope.
Someone, probably several someones, set a blocks-long dinner table in a public space, complete with linens, proper dishes and flowers, then invited folks from the neighborhood to come eat.
And they cam...
Sam and I are on the road again, this time with a camper, truck and trailer, three horses, two dogs, four saddles and the rest of our stuff. We're leaving Wyoming and roaming the West like we do.
It sounds romantic, and it is. Waking up to the sunrise in Wheatland, Wyoming and Trinidad Colorado,...
Midlife has been hands-down the hardest time in my life. Nobody told me it would be this hard either, so I didn't expect it. Now that I'm getting to the other side, here are ten things I wish I'd known before my 45th birthday.
You're probably already in perimenopause - which can begin ten year...
It's been a violent week in America and across the world. It's sometimes hard to know how to lead your life, your family, your career through wild uncertainties like these - especially if you're deconstructing your faith, your political sensibilities and other structures from your life's first ha...
I'm going to Chicago next week for a conference. I'm flying there, seeing friends, taking Ubers to the best Cannoli and Italian food, shopping downtown and probably drinking a little too much.
And that's funny because this morning on a Zoom call, a giant bull moose grazed in the willows behind m...
I was at a party over the weekend, talking with a young man who is maybe 24. He's been working a job in sales and is good at it, but it holds no meaning for him and he's antsy about it.
It made me think of a recent Pew study that found 95 percent of teens said “having a job or career they enjoy” ...
At the beinning of my midlife deconstruction, I began reading Matthew Kelly, specifically his book The Rhythm of Life. I didn't even know what a midlife deconstruction was then, I was just trying to answer the question: WTF has gone wrong with me?
Sure, Sam and I made some huge moves in 2018, li...
