It’s nice to meet you. I’m a mom and nature lover, but more than that, I love the nature inside myself and how that has fed all of the other parts of me. My favorite places at home are in the barn, in the gardens, and under the silver maples…

Trauma triggers abound. I am starting to see a pattern in my life. And it has to do with being the one who was left behind. As the oldest in a large family, I was one of the first to leave the roost. I was also filled with wanderlust as…

And his girlfriend followed suit. — Last weekend was my sweet son’s wedding. It was perfect. We are all exhausted and half of us are sick, but still, it was perfect. The only part that was hard was the fact that I had to see my ex and his stupid little girlfriend; the typical 50-something and…

Everyday magic happens if we let it. — As a child, I was involved in something. It was something “normal”. But I didn’t talk about it for many years because it was shrouded in fear and shame. I was physically involved with another child. I was 11. If my child told me that they had this experience, I…

When it’s almost a full-time job just taking care of yourself — Have you ever gone through a stage in life when just taking care of yourself was a lot to ask? I have too. During my divorce, when things got really, really messy, I felt I was living inside a box filled with traumatizing events. It was filled with hopelessness because…

It’s totally okay to opt out. — As a homeschool mom, I learned early on not to suggest homeschooling was a great idea for anyone else. I saw it done so poorly sometimes that children were years behind when their moms would finally get honest and send them to school. They wanted to…so badly. But homeschooling your…

I want to be interesting to you… — Just today, my sweet man and I had a bit of a discussion that didn’t go as I would have hoped. There were words on both sides that were lost in translation. I know that’s not special, but it is a bit disconcerting. I am aware that we only understand…

Sometimes we have to do the footwork…and get honest — I’m writing this in response to another article I read. The subject of the article was founded on the scary fact that humans have more access to information than in the past. …

And taught me that what I wanted was too much. — As I was exiting my marriage of over 25 years, I was confronted with something that was too good to be true. Like most people who have been in abusive or neglectful relationships, I was in a state of deconstructing everything, literally everything in my life. Who I was, who…