The Six-O. It is a milestone we’ve already celebrated for my husband and two of my sisters over the last few years. Some of my closest friends have already crossed this threshold and they are brilliant, vibrant, still living people. Sixty looks good based on those people. They are each living an ever-increasingly vibrant life — clearer, wiser, more generous,…
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So much death. It’s a heavy time. I know several people, close friends, who said goodbye to fathers last year. The existential shift is real. I have now said goodbye to three Dads in my life. Actually, two were ‘goodbyes’ the other was more of a “wait, what?“ Or … maybe the moment of a father dying is always a…
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Under normal circumstances, moving isn’t easy. Moving upsets our comfort zones. It shakes up our orientation
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My beautiful mother could cast a narrative of her life that’s very different than the story she actually lives out daily, and has lived for the last 50 years. She could wear righteous anger over betrayal and loss. She could carry that badge and wave it around, ever so subtly, to keep her place as a person who deserves more…
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In a social media environment where the curated messaging of our Instagram feed has the power to make us feel many things – motivated, inspired, discouraged, inferior – I like to remind my family of the Unique Rainbow Theory. Or URT. (It’s my theory; still working on the name.) The URT is the principle that when we see a rainbow…
