Category: Life changes

Change Happens

Change happens! That can be dramatic, traumatic, and certainly automatic. It just does. No stoppin’ it. Change also means you get to recast the dice,

Slices of Retirement

The 401k gets raided during a health emergency. The asset accumulation of the fifties decade fails to materialize during a recession and associated unemployment. The

Inverter Earth

Why do we sleep? Why do we need rest? Why can’t we just churn on until we reach the end of it all? Life seems

Active

Don’t react. Respond. Take in the essence, the details and the meaning.  Assess, evaluate, and then respond. That’s the only way you have control over a

Just Practice

When you make a really big mistake, when you miss an important opportunity, when someone really close to you leaves, remember one thing: it was

Unemployment’s Secondary Effect

When you’re out of work, you really have to manage other people’s perception of it. Manage – or help them gain an understanding of events.

Alive

When we are young, we test ourselves to know we are alive: feeling the thrill of walking along a precipice, exploring our endurance by running

Too Late to Harvest

I noticed the volunteer in the shady side of the back yard – in a remote section near the compost, surrounded by trees. Looking more

This Too

There is a proverb that, when whispered, is said to lighten the burden of the saddened and weigh down the light-hearted: “This too shall pass.”