• Taking Time to Recharge

    ​When you’re constantly giving of yourself to your employer, your significant other, your family, and various other responsibilities, it can be overwhelming. Sometimes you need some me time to restore...

  • People at Heart

    ​Now that our kids have all reached adulthood, my husband and I finally took our first trip to Europe. Before we became parents, he used to say, “We could go to Europe, or we could have kids.” The trip...

  • Be Careful, Little Brain, What You Think

    Photo: AdjaFong ​I sent a text message to a friend and didn’t get a response. Was she mad at me? A week went by before I sent another, with the same result. Surely she had something against me. Did I...

  • Making Time for Life's Surprises

    ​ ​Life is full of seeming interruptions that come along and derail us from our plans. An illness or a surgery with a long recovery can quickly take us off course. An unexpected job loss or the death...

  • An Eye-Opening Experience

    Photo: AberdeenDiversity Empathy can be hard to come by unless you experience firsthand what others do. When it comes to blindness and visual impairment, that’s nearly impossible short of an accident...

  • The Winds of Change

    Photo: DirtyBootPrints ​“Let it go.” The theme song from Disney’s “Frozen” kept playing in my head. I wanted so desperately to hold on, to maintain control, to ensure accuracy and consistency. I was...