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Grocery shopping was one of the hardest things to adjust in my empty nest.
For you, too?
Downsizing meal plans. Shortening the shopping list (read: not stocking up to feed the three or four extra teens who were always around). Choosing snacks and nibbles… just for me.
One of the new things I’ve enjoyed is having time to explore Read More
There’s a scene in a 1990s rom-com called Runaway Bride, it’s really short, maybe 10 seconds long, but it relentlessly keeps smiling its way back into my mind.
The film, a re-pairing of Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, where she plays a woman, Maggie who has a reputation of getting cold feet at her wedding, dramatically leaving her grooms at the altar, hence Read More
Sometimes joy finds you in the least expected places.
A hallway. A headset. A nearly missed moment.
This is one of those stories. Read More
I love that kind of quiet transformation—the kind that doesn’t require a life overhaul or a big, bold declaration. The kind that grows quietly, organically, and one day shows up in the most unexpected places. Read More
Have you ever noticed how much kids laugh? Giggles, snorts, chortles, guffaws — they erupt into joy hundreds of times a day, often for no reason at all.
Then we grow up. Life gets busier, heavier. The laughter doesn’t disappear entirely, but it thins out. We still smile, still chuckle. But it’s different, isn’t it? Read More
Everyone thought I was going to fall apart. The first year my son went off to university, the predictions were unanimous: “You’re going to be devastated without him.” Some said it kindly. Some said it gleefully. Some handed me wine Read More
It was a rainy afternoon in London. My son — ten or eleven at the time — was eager to visit Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. I wasn’t feeling it. At all.
He was excited. I was… not so much.
Of course, we went. (Good parenting points, right?) Read More
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