Sometimes Good Enough Really Is Good Enough

January 20, 2023 I struggle with accepting ‘good enough’. To me, it means mediocrity. It means settling. It’s not a comfortable place especially when so much of what you read or see on TV, social media, or whatever you read is about “becoming better than you were yesterday”, “never settle for less”, “always improving”, “optimization […]

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2022: The Year of Balance

January 1, 2022 It’s a new year and everyone is making their new resolutions! I typically use my birthday as my “new year” of making new goals and challenges, but I didn’t take the time to reflect during my birthday weekend this year due to other events. So, I took advantage of this week to […]

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Learning to Be Still

May 29, 2019 I find myself too busy lately. Too busy working. Too busy training. Too busy doing this and that. I long for less noise. Less going here and doing that. Some days, I long to just be STILL. Quite honestly, I don’t even know what being still looks like, what it FEELS like. […]

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My Testament

June 30, 2016 I decided to clean out some boxes in the garage, and ran across a folder of papers written during my undergraduate years at Penn State.  With a minor in Gerontology, I took a course that covered a section on “end of life” issues.  One of our assignments was to write our own obituary […]

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