January 2021 – Red Chair Reflections

Can’t we just go back to the way it was before?

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021Leave a Comment

Photo by Amina Filkins on Pexels.com When I was younger, my mom had a subscription to Ladies Home Journal, among a few other magazines. One of my favorite columns to read, even as a young girl, was "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" The column would start with a recap of a situation, then the wife…

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Garbage in, Garbage out

January 11, 2021January 11, 20211 Comment

Image by Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay Like many of you probably do each year, toward the end of last year I made a promise to myself to get a fresh start in 2021 and try to concentrate on what's working and why, what isn't working so well and why, and what I want to do…

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Hi. I love my husband, my family, my country, all dogs (but especially ours), cooking, wine, travel and am a bit of a news junkie.

I have opinions, reflections, and passions about what I’ve learned from the different roles I’ve had in my life as a daughter, a sister, a career woman, a friend, a wife, an aunt, and a stepmother that I plan to share here. I’m also at the age where I’m starting to ponder life’s next chapters, and the inevitable changes that come with age.

Regardless our politics, our relationship status on Facebook, or whatever we might be dealing with personally at the moment, I believe we’re all in this together, and we’re just trying to figure out how to embrace the inevitably rocky journey of life with optimism and hope.

Whether you read a post here and say to yourself “Thank God, I thought it was just me,” or “Good Lord, she’s lost her mind,” I hope you’ll tell me so. Thank you!