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I recently read a book that left an impression on me. Enough so that I wrote a book review on it in this blog and created a January challenge around it for the women in this community who were inter...
I compare the season of fall in my life to how I view New Year's Eve for everyone else. It is a time of year where I reflect on my summer and the previous year along with my goals and aspirations as...
Every year my family does what we fondly refer to as our "lake week." Both of my sons and their families, myself and my husband, and this past summer my parents, all go to my younger son's lake hous...
It's been a couple of years since I made the decision to "fade out" of my 25+ year career and a full year in which I've been totally client free and retired.
My mindset each morning when I wake up ...
At the beginning of each year, I send out a survey to the Life Balance Community about what you'd like to see more content on. What you need help with.
I went back to take a look at the list as I ...
Like many of us, I've been contemplating 2023 and reflecting on my thoughts, plans, and dreams for 2024.
I've chosen a word for the new year which shouldn't surprise anyone who's been following me...
Life has been a bit nuts during the past 3-4 weeks.
Although this is fairly typical for me in August, it seems a bit worse this summer.
We are on the last legs of our beach home being built. W...
Last spring after some stressful "stuff," I decided to move forward with my plan to fade out of my job (I just cannot bring myself to use the word "retire" for some reason) and declared last summer "m...
Recently, I read a book called "The Road to Me" by Laura Drake. Nellie, the grandmother in the book said, "suffering is optional."
This quote was a topic of discussion for our book group, both when...
I love to read and my typical genre is either psychological thriller/mystery or historical fiction. From time to time, I stumble upon a book that I feel that the women in this community might enjoy ...
I am writing this blog post after returning home from an amazing weekend with family as we celebrated my mom's 80th birthday. (Although she is technically my stepmother, she and my father have been ...