Battling Irrelevance: Finding a New Path
I recently shared with a friend that I felt irrelevant. What led to that conclusion was a year of tremendous upheaval. I left my university teaching job, sold my…
Grieving on planes
I seem to do much grieving on planes. Perhaps that’s because whenever I receive very bad news, it usually means getting on the first flight I can book in order…
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Reinvention
As I drove away from my children yesterday, leaving them to begin their new journey as college students, I knew I would cry and be an emotional wreck. That was a…
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Learning to be Still
Everything in my world is changing. My entire universe is shifting. There is much ‘leaving’ going on. I am leaving behind academia after 25 years, and stepping off the treadmill…
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Successful Aging
Perhaps because I am part of the demographic, and I have been sensing a tremendous shift in my priorities since turning fifty, all of my research of late has…
Jumping off the Hamster Wheel
My life doesn’t allow me much time to take in films. If I truly hoped to catch up on all the films I wanted to see, I’d have to go…
Transitions
I am reaching a definite point of transition in my life. My children (twins) are 18, seniors in high school. They are elbow deep into college applications, and the excitement…