Single life, married life, kids, boss… So many conflicting priorities.
Making a Difference
We look up and wonder where the years have gone. We glance at pictures, at our lanky teens, at our own furrowed brows reflected in the mirror and we feel the weight of our years. Midlife isn’t what we once envisioned. Then again, it just may be better. There may be new opportunities, if we’re […]
The Essential Male Bucket List (And Then Some)
A list intriguing for either sex?
Criss-Cross
“You’re where?” “Austin,” he says. I’m 1,000 miles from home with the headache from hell. I’m holding back a flood of tears over my younger son who is spending his first night in the dorm. In a new part of the country. In a new life. He’s fine, I know. But I’m a mess.
Backbone
When parenting requires the backbone to say no.
Guts
No time. No energy. No money. (And every other excuse in the book.) But they aren’t excuses. They’re resource constraints, I tell myself. It’s assessment time. Truth time. This is a period of transition for me, as I imagine it is for many of us who are between jobs, post marriages, about to enter a […]
Second Chances
“I didn’t think there were second chances. Not really,” he said to me on the phone. It was a friend I hadn’t talked to in some time. He sounded happy. He’d been through a lot in recent years – divorce, layoff, financial problems. And after five years, at the age of 50, he’d met someone […]