Less Calling Out ~ More Calling In
There is so much to like about living near a college town, including the opportunity to stretch my mind and expand my knowledge base. While I get to do…
X is for Xaviera Simmons
Each week for 26 weeks, I am publishing a post about women who are not widely known but should be—women who can inspire us, teach us, and encourage us…
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…
Why Are So Many Women Self-Destructing?
As I was drinking my morning coffee while surfing the latest headlines, I paused mid-sip when I saw “Life Expectancy Drops for White Women” in health news from NPR. This…
Untethered
I was Skyping with a friend I hadn’t spoken to in quite some time the other day. When she asked me how I was doing, I struggled to find the…
Discover Your Healing Story Launches on the Daily OM!
Discover Your Healing Story Launches on the Daily OM! I am excited to be partnering with the Daily OM--an online community that nurtures mind, body and spirit by offering daily inspiration, on-line courses, discussions,…
Writing Women’s Lives
She didn’t write it. (But if it’s clear she did the deed. . .) She wrote it, but she shouldn’t have. (It’s political, sexual, masculine, feminist.) She wrote it, but…
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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…