I find it tiresome and disturbing. Last week I closed both of my online dating profiles frustrated with the pervasive hookup mentality . I arrived at this decision after a busy week of three first dates. Two out of the three guys wanted to see me again, so I guess you could say it went […]
Tag: change
Things No One Warned Me About Dating in My 50s
An old friend contacted me with some questions about what’s like to be dating in my 50s, as some of her single girlfriends had started to do the same, and their decisions were surprising her — particularly when it came to sex. Since she was still married to her college sweetheart, this was unknown territory. “What’s going […]
A Better Tool To Achieve Greater Dating Success
It’s relational self-awareness. I looked over at my third date and thought, “Something is going terribly wrong.” Why wasn’t I having greater dating success? But what? Here was an attractive, successful man — an intellectual, who was talkative, and had a variety of interests. He was widely read, and his musical tastes were broad. His children were […]
How I Went from Being a Lousy Writer to a Better One
It took a dash of moxie, a thicker skin, and lots of determination I wished I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they’d be a writer if only they knew how to write better. I’d be a millionaire by now. Writers are made not born I used to think that writing was […]
How to Change the World with a Small Act of Faith
My life-changing experience meeting a spiritual giant Years ago, I met an amazing elderly woman: a much-loved great grandmother, grandmother, and mother and a quiet, stalwart member of my local church. Willow thin, she kept her hair pulled back into a silver-gray bun. She stood slightly bent and kept a tight grip on her walker. […]
What Most People Don’t Understand…
A friend shared this powerful blog written by an oncology nurse, Lindsay, who is now a cancer patient. It is a open letter to her former patients titled, Dear every cancer patient I ever took care of, I’m sorry. I didn’t get it, and describes what she has learned from her personal experience with cancer. […]
Do You Avoid or Embrace Change?
Are you a person who enjoys change or someone who likes things to stay the same? Are you sentimental? Or are someone who finds new experiences and opportunities exciting? I suspect none of you are surprised to learn that my life has undergone tremendous change over the past two years. In this video I share […]
NOW: the art of living in the moment
Learning Not to get Ahead of Myself I stumbled across an update I forgot to post from May. I thought I would include it since it fits this video blog I made about the same topic. God’s New Lessons As you can see God has been hard at work and teaching me a lot about […]
Why Facebook is Dangerous
Sometimes Life is Too Hard and You Need to Step Away Christmas is finally over. Whew! I’m glad, because this year I boycotted the holiday. Things Go Wrong It was one year ago today that Brad and I were supposed to fly into Sarasota, Florida and to begin our five vacation days of enjoying ourselves […]
Purging Closets: Changing the Old for New
Yesterday I had lunch with a woman I had met at a local cancer support group earlier this year. It was the sixth month anniversary of her husband’s death, and we were talking about all the unwanted changes brought on by widowhood–of changing the old for the new. As we sat at the restaurant’s table […]