My almost empty nest

Scarlet  and Cress by Marissa Meyer These are the second and third installments in a four-part series of a YA dystopian/fairy tale mash-up. Fair warning, the fourth part doesn’t come out until November. I enjoy Young Adult literature, so I often…

When my son was in preschool, we carpooled with another little boy in the neighborhood. The mother and I had never met, but the preschool put us in touch with each other because we were in the same neighborhood and…

I am a bit of a personality test nerd, and StrengthsFinder is one of my favorites. It lists your top five strengths and tells you what that means for you. My number one strength is LEARNER, meaning I love to…

This picture of me tells you a lot about me right off the bat, I’m wearing a denim jacket, pretty standard for me, and I’m cooking, which I love. I also have my sunglasses on my head, which is almost…

I am a master of the starting over self-improvement kick. I think this may have something to do with my MBTI- I’m an ENFP. Improvement and coaching are big for me, so when I aim that at myself, it can…

I believe I may have jinxed myself in starting this blog. Within a week of writing my first post, my oldest son tore his ACL, and returned home for surgery and recovery. My middle daughter graduated from college 2 weeks…

I find myself in a bit of an unusual situation (not all that unusual unless your main occupation has been raising kids for the last 20+ years). I have worked myself out of a job. Not really, I mean I…