by lynn | Apr 15, 2018 | Moving Forward
If you want to spend your life tied up in worrisome knots, just watch the news. It is chock-full of fear fodder. It’s a scary world filled with scary things. And yet we are also bombarded by messages that encourage us to override fear. Just do it, right? I can see...
by lynn | Feb 21, 2018 | Moving Forward
Disappointments come in all sizes – from a single drop of rain on a silk blouse to catastrophic flooding. From, “Gee, that’s a bummer.” To, “I don’t know how we’ll recover.” Historically, I’ve dealt with disappointment by choosing denial – telling myself, ‘It’s...
by lynn | Feb 13, 2018 | Moving Forward
Valentine’s Day, shmalentine’s day. January is a month of new beginnings and my birthday month. March means spring break, a time to anticipate the buds and blossoms of new life. But sometimes February sucks. There were several years when I really hated February...
by lynn | Nov 4, 2017 | Moving Forward
There have been too many holiday seasons when I wanted to skip December all together. I felt pressure to be happy and I just wasn’t feeling it. Have you been there? Are you dealing with transition, loss, betrayal, divorce, sadness, loneliness or strained...
by lynn | Aug 21, 2017 | Moving Forward
My car beeps at me when I only have enough gas to travel 50 miles. A little orange gas tank blinks on the dash. A message pops up on the display offering to search for the nearest gas station. The range I can travel with the fuel in the tank counts down to 30 miles...
by lynn | Jul 21, 2017 | Marriage
I was honored to be a guest on the Delight Your Marriage Podcast earlier this year. Tune in to these two conversations with host Belah Rose and check out the Delight Your Marriage Podcast as a resource for information on sex in marriage. The Delight Your Marriage...
by lynn | Jul 8, 2017 | Moving Forward
I grew up on Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman in the 70’s. She was smart and beautiful, kind and powerful. I was a fan. When I heard about the new movie coming out this summer, I got a little obsessed. I began to wonder about Wonder Woman. I discovered she was...
by lynn | May 1, 2017 | Moving Forward
Solomon was the wisest man on the earth and a deep thinker. Can I just say that I have to be in the mood for people like that? They can be a little exasperating. I’ll admit they have some really great things to say, in small measured doses. In his musings on the...
by lynn | Jan 7, 2017 | Moving Forward
If you turn the calendar over into a new year with laissez faire, I think this blog will provide a gentle nudge that you’ll thank me for later. If you are the geeky goal setting type…hang in there and know that I have some cool links to share that could be right up...
by lynn | Aug 14, 2016 | Moving Forward
I don’t know about every other ordinary mom, but I always feel like a slacker during the Olympics. I reach for tissues when I hear stories about heroic mothers of Olympians and how they worked four jobs, stayed up all night cleaning offices and then slept in the...