It’s the new year, and I am reflecting. Looking back at 2018 and all the good stuff that happened. Usually, by the second week of January, I’m already entrenched in my list of resolutions. Giddy to have another go at the areas of my life that need improvement. Grateful for the forgiveness and chance at redemption that January 1 always brings. Of course, this mindset causes the majority of my...
Hallelujah, the tree is down and I am done with Christmas. Thanks to a particularly dry Noble Fir-turned-to-kindling, my family gave me their reluctant approval to kick it to the curb a full week early, so that by 10 a.m. on Boxing Day it was in the bin, the ornaments packed away, and the needles vacuumed up. Don’t get me wrong, I love the holidays: the decorating, the giving, the...
There’s so much noise around turning 50. Does one deny being a half-century old? Embrace the achievement? Fight like the devil to turn back the clock? Without question, this age instigates a new chapter with bigger stakes and a growing sense of urgency. Given our youth-obsessed culture and my own compulsion to stay young, I wondered how honestly I could write about this milestone. Fifty on Fifty is my experiment.
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