Good boundaries. I didn’t grow up with good boundaries. There are reasons for that: My son, on the other hand, has great boundaries. He has great boundaries for the same reason he’s not frightened of spiders – I raised him that way. Teaching him to have good boundaries was a deliberate act. We all want our children to have what we didn’t. By the time … Continue reading We Need Roots, Wings, and Boundaries.
The nature of change. I dislike the (mostly) gradual nature of change when it comes to the human biological condition. I didn’t enjoy the slow crawl into menstruation, nor the year of sore breast buds back in the day. And I considered those ten months of pregnancy borderline assault, especially the last few weeks. I might have felt differently if there’d been less illness. I’m … Continue reading Managing Menopause: Skin, Body, Mind, and Tricep.
The writer’s deep love for reading came from her mother, who instilled it in her from a young age. She reminisces about her childhood reading experiences and how her preferences have evolved. While she discusses her dislike for certain genres, she cherishes books featuring strong female protagonists and magical worlds that teach important life lessons. Continue reading A book is a good thing to have.
Generation X – we did stuff, we saw stuff Generation X – Gen X as we like to be called – spans the fifteen years from 1965 to 1980 which makes us now, in 2024, middle-aged. That burns a bit. We were the cool kids, generationally speaking, at least we like to think so. To hear us talk, you’d think we invented everything, including hardship. … Continue reading Gen X is aging, and we’re grumpy with it.
From Famine to Feast. 