My husband celebrated his birthday this year by spending three days in Idyllwild. He turned 58 years old – we met when he was 39. I was a single divorced mother with three kids and he was a single divorced man with two dogs. We actually met while I was on a date at a…
Read MoreI truly love the part of my job that allows me to be in class with nursing students. Watching them have an ‘ah-ha’ moment is both rewarding and encouraging…since they may be my care provider at some point in the future. I’m beginning to realize, however, how I need to rewrite some of my assessments…
Read MoreI wrote earlier in the week about surveying my empty nest. This morning, I began thinking…What has changed? Is anything truly different? I’ve spent so many years with a house full of people, what benefits are reaped when the house is filled…with two? There are the obvious changes. Our food bill has cut in half.…
Read MoreThere is something about being in a room of 400 writers that makes you think you can take on the world. The energy is high, adrenaline is pumping (especially in those classes that requested that you actually READ your work to whoever was sitting next to you!) and inspiration abounds. You are surrounded by authors…
Read MoreSomeone asked me the other day “When do your kids begin needing you less?” I had to stop and think. We have three young men of ages 26, 24, and 22. Do they need me less….then when? Then when they were newborns? Yep…all of them are weaned and no one is still on the bottle.…
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Mothering, Marriage and Menopause 