because words are powerful
For the past six months, I have been untangling myself from a difficult situation that was my reality since early 2012. You read that right. Since two thousand TWELVE. For what spanned a decade, the majority of my daughter’s childhood, I dreaded going to work. There, I encountered, well, that’s just it. I never knew…
One of the best things I have done for my head and heart is to get out of them both and spend time moving my body. I am a bookworm, not an athlete, so it’s taken concerted effort to leave my curled up posture in a comfy chair, book in my lap, and explore the…
…I sat on a barstool—natural Montana mountain sunshine lighting the otherwise darkened restaurant midday. I was surrounded by my newest sisterhood—women I’d met at a writing retreat. They were the first people to meet me as a divorced woman—two weeks into this new life when I flew west for the retreat. We were in that…
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