Category: My Jubilee Year

This phrase, this experience, is one of the biggest take aways from my time at Harvard. It may be impossible for me to fully express how diminished and belittled I felt from my marriage. Even though it had been three years since then, as I wrestled with the workload of graduate school I came face […]

I’m sorry I left you hanging. The last time I wrote anything for this blog was in October of 2017, a lifetime ago, and yet here I am, awake in the early hours of the morning in February 2021. I’m feeling the need to continue the narrative for my own processing and understanding and to […]

I am trying to keep my head above C level this week as I write a paper to analyze a leadership situation in my life and do a literature review for my group counseling project. I’m also working on my creative project and have expanded it to create a website to gather information and support […]

Hello and happy fall! I had to look at my calendar to remember what I did this week, and oh yeah, I was studying – ha! I had a paper due on Tuesday, and I’ve been working on several other papers as well. LOTS of reading and self-reflection and writing and more reading. I would […]

When my kids were worried about moving up a grade to a new school, I always told them that high school was better than middle school and that college was better than high school, and now I’m discovering that graduate school is better than college! Yes, I have taken the long and winding road to […]

When I was growing up, my mother would often say: The only thing you can depend on is change. I have found that to be true in my life. By the time our family arrived in Colorado, I had moved more than 20 times throughout my life if I counted accurately. Sometimes I was sad; […]

Sorting, donating, selling, cleaning, and packing is exhausting! I knew this from previous moving experiences and was dreading it. Which is why I procrastinated as long as possible and enjoyed every moment I could spend with loved ones. I feel such a deep sense of gratitude to all the many friends who helped me celebrate […]

When Mom and I were in Paris, we had the opportunity to visit a 770-year-old cathedral called Sainte-Chapelle, that has recently been restored. The combined effects of centuries of grime, candle soot, pollution, and weather on the windows had been painstakingly cleaned and repaired. These photos show a little bit of the beauty and prompted my thoughts […]

Paris… how I loved it! Mom and I had such a delightful time and enjoyed being able to explore the city as if we lived there. Our routine was to wake up to this view… Walk around the corner to the local patisserie and pick up breakfast to go… then hop on the bus or the […]