The Power of a Healing Cocoon

My lavender eye bag atop my weighted blanket (author photo) I have slowly exited a personal hell… no other way to put it. Two weeks ago, when I sought a loving in-person conversation after asking for a couple months of the most serious and honest reflection of...

This Is Us…Or Should Be

Confession: I have never watched the popular TV series “This Is Us,” which ran for nearly six years. Many of my friends never missed an episode, but me? Nope. Never watched it. I was thinking about that phrase yesterday–this is us–as my...

The Necessity for a Timeout for a Relationship

A broken fish sculpture with an intact heart I recently broke a sweet pastel painted fish one of my sons made years ago. I’ve always been careful when I dust because I have so many little works of art sitting around, created by noted artists and by my sons. As I...