When we decide we're ready to take a healthy step forward, we set out determined. We prepare to take action. Inside, we're not sure we actually can reach our goal, perhaps, but we jump in anyway. Call it optimism, or craziness. Our resolve may last five minutes, five weeks, five months. We have fits and starts. And it can be easy to beat ourselves up over the fits and restarts. But as we … [Read more...] about Celebrate Each Success, and Begin Again
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My Birthday Gifts – To You
Today is my birthday - woo hoo! I like to be remembered and celebrated, a little. I also like to celebrate others, and I believe in celebrating every single day. When's your birthday? Can we celebrate it today, with mine? Awesome. Happy Birthday, and Happy Un-Birthday. Yes, we will sing songs. Yes, we will enjoy cake. Yes, we will give gifts. Yes, we will show up with all of our … [Read more...] about My Birthday Gifts – To You
The Ties that Bind: Reflecting on 50 Years of Love, Faith, and Connection
My parents married 50 years ago at the church they grew up in, that I grew up in, and where my husband and I also got married. It's a special place, with wonderfully imperfect and lovable people. On their actual anniversary, we were able to worship there together as an extended family, and then we went to brunch. My parents, who joined the ranks of the 6% of couples who reach a 50th … [Read more...] about The Ties that Bind: Reflecting on 50 Years of Love, Faith, and Connection
