Time used to look like a line that started on the left and moved straight to the right. That’s what all the history wall charts and foldout timelines taught me. When I was growing up, I bought into the idea that you could identify a point in the distance and get there from here. I…
“Honor the space between no longer and not yet.” ~Nancy Levin Big transitions are often preceded by a period of waiting. It can be torturous. We can get frustrated with delays and speed bumps. If the next big thing would just hurry up and get here, we think, we could get on with life. We…
I didn’t rush out and buy a red convertible, so my mid-life crisis wasn’t obvious. The tipping point was sending my youngest off to full-day kindergarten two years ago. I drove home that morning without a preschooler in tow for the first time in twenty years. The empty car was filled with my racing thoughts….
I seem to have fallen in love. According to various sources, I am either giggling in delirious happiness, crying with the sincerest gratitude, or pining because I’m not in his immediate vicinity. I’m madly, stupidly in love for the first time in my life— it’s enough to make me want to call all of the former…
It’s that glorious time of year again here in East Tennessee. You can smell it in the air, feel it in the wind, and see it in the trees, which are bright with reds and oranges. Autumn (my favorite season) has arrived. Soon little feet will crunch leaves, husbands and wives will snuggle under warm…