For most of my adult life, I thought having goals meant I had direction. I always had a list — career goals, health goals, financial goals, trips we kept saying we’d take someday. Some years I hit them. Some years I didn’t. Either way, January would arrive and I’d start over, because that’s what you’re … Read more
I wasn’t in crisis. That’s the thing that made it hard to name. There was no rock bottom, no dramatic moment, no morning I woke up and knew something had to change. Just a quiet, persistent dissatisfaction that I kept moving past — too busy to stop, too uncertain to look directly at it. I … Read more
Walking is one of the most commonly recommended habits for health. And one of the easiest to quietly drift away from. Not because it’s hard —but because we often turn it into something it was never meant to be. A streak to maintain.A number to hit.A box to check. When that happens, walking stops being … Read more
Waiting to feel ready kept me still longer than I realized. A year or so before Tom’s first surgery, a friend of mine — mid-forties, kids grown, one of them already in nursing school — told me she was starting an accelerated nursing program herself. She had been a stay-at-home mom. Life was good. Things … Read more
Most reinvention stories end at the turning point. The new career.The decision that finally stuck.The season where everything shifted. What rarely gets talked about is what comes after — when the change is no longer the focus, the structure that carried you through is gone, and a quieter set of questions moves in: This phase … Read more