The Myth of the Problem-free Life
We learned an important lesson in our decade-long friendships. We learned that we had been fooled. We had convinced ourselves that if we could manage our schedules, break through the…
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Wisdom of Women
Women have a remarkable way of helping other women. The wisdom of women can be a life raft when you are in the midst of a transition. When you get…
Good Advice
When dreams turn to dust, vacuum. — This Is Not the Life I Ordered, by Deborah Collins Stephens, Jackie Speier, Michealene Cristini Risley, and Jan Yanehiro, p. 156
To-don’t Lists
We need to rid our to-do lists of things that don’t matter, don’t create value, don’t make a difference. We need to restructure our lives and take more time to…
Someone Wonderful
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my…
Reinvention
The process of reinvention, we’ve learned, is best managed with humor, friendship, optimism, and a long-lasting high-beam flashlight to see the light at the end of every tunnel. — Deborah…