My Suzanne Westenhoefer Moment

We’re renewing our lease. This isn’t a rare event. It’s unprecedented. I don’t know how I feel about it. On one hand, I know why this is the right decision – several trips already planned for this year, paying off debt, time savings, a good location for travel along the East Coast. On the other,…

I went for a solo walk/run yesterday. Mainly a walk with occasional, brief bouts of running consisting of short strides and poorly-taken breaths. I would say I’m the world’s worst runner, but I trust I have an advantage over asthmatics and arthritics. This walk/barely-run took place on a path with little traffic other than the…

Throughout my life, I’ve been blessed – and cursed – with rather vivid dreams. I can’t qualify them as “extremely” or “extraordinarily” vivid dreams, because I don’t spend a whole lot of time in other people’s dreamscapes, but I do know that they are vivid. When I was pretty young, early elementary school-age, I had…

When it comes to the Goods in life, I’m not sure it gets much better than this. Throughout life, people will tell you that you shouldn’t care what anyone thinks of you. To some extent, this is some of the best advice you’ll ever receive. The thoughts of many people are governed by emotions like…