My husband and I were foolish enough to honor and celebrate our children’s ideas, curiosity, and varying opinions. It seemed like a great idea when they were young and their decisions didn’t really change much in the world. It did, however, make them confident in...
My son and daughter-in-law are new parents and I’m a happy new grandma. It’s been an absolute pleasure to watch my son and his wife navigate parenthood. It’s a different world now versus when I raised my son. How parents feed and talk to their chlldren has changed and...
In 2023 I became a Swiftie. If you don’t know what that means, it means I really started to like and listen to Taylor Swift’s music. I had heard some of her music prior to 2023, but didn’t pay much attention to it. I kept reading about Swift’s Eras Tour and it peaked...
The famous song line, “Regrets, I’ve had a few” is one that I think many of us can relate to. Yet what I see frequently, is that people get stuck in those regrets. They live the rest of their lives focused on the regrets, the things they said or did that they wish...
When I went to school to become a psychologist, a popular theorist was often discussed, Abraham Maslow. Maslow posited the hierarchy of needs and the concept of peak experiences which refers to moments of intense joy, fulfillment, and transcendence, during which we...
There’s a very entertaining online thread called, “AITA – Am I the Asshole?” It’s a subreddit that was created in 2013 by photographer and dog rescuer, Marc Beaulac. Beaulac wanted to determine if he had been inappropriately mansplaining in a debate with female...
