• Coddiwomple- A Series of Stories

    One day, a friend shared this video from a TED Talk with me. https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_osborne_the_theory_of_coddiwomple I’d never heard this word before but it struck a chord with me.  It occurred to me that I had been coddiwompling my way through life.…

  • Family

    It’s Family Day today.  It got me thinking, what is family? I have a small family.  Just me, my sister and my parents.  I am not close to any of my aunts, uncles or cousins.  I can tell you their…

  • Cheers to Friends

    I recently spent a weekend visiting with some girlfriends and it was a blast.  We drove out to the country, cooked together, made pepper jelly, drank, sang, played games and laughed till our guts hurt.  We talked about anything and…