I’m backlogged on blogs — and honestly, I’m learning to accept it. I don’t think I ever want to be ahead of my writing, because that would mean I’m not out there living. The whole […]
Tag: mental-health
Permission Slips and Plane Tickets
I have so much to tell you — which is exactly why I keep coming back to this page. Blogging is my little ritual of confession and connection: the place where messy mornings, small victories, […]
Tender Shifts
Friday carried a tender weight—the close of my parents’ visit left me wrapped in that sweet kind of melancholy, the kind that lingers when you’ve had something so good it’s hard to let go. Later, […]
The Forty Files: Doing It All at 43
The strangest thing about getting older? It’s how everyone else around me seems to be aging, while I’m still suspended in this feeling—one I can’t quite name. It’s not an age. It’s not a phase. […]
More than the carpool line
As a middle-aged mama, I hear it all the time—women saying things like, “I can’t do this,” or “That’s not what people our age do.” Somewhere along the way, we started believing that new dreams […]
The Forty Files 