“One life on this Earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least

I don’t regret my choices.  I can’t.  Regret is no place to live.  I know that.  But.  Yes, there is a but.  If I had to do it again.  If

It took my breath away and stopped me in my tracks.  I don’t think I could have made myself move.  I couldn’t do anything but look at what was all around me.  Wide

There is no New Year’s resolution for me this year.  I’m not making promises and I’m not setting goals.  I’m not going back through the past twelve months and evaluating

Divorce.  I thought I knew.  I thought I knew what it would be like.    What to expect.  How I would feel.  How I would react and how others would react. 

Okay.  Here is what 18+ years of being a mother and over 20 years of being a teacher and years of being a friend and a daughter and business owner,

I had never danced in the rain. Not in forty-five years. But there I was. Music blaring from my phone. Margaritas fueling my groove. An empty town square and the