-
This is Between Business Cards
I’m navigating life—one foot stuck in the mud, the other trying to pull free. Like you, I’ve held a lot of roles: sibling, employee, spouse, healthy person and one facing illness. Some of those titles even made it onto my business cards. But life has a way of editing our identities—whether we’re ready or not. Over time, my roles changed. I was divorced. My parents passed. I experienced painful estrangements and major illness. And through it all—showing up, struggling, transitioning—I found unexpected lifelines: family, friends, books, projects and small, quiet gestures that kept me afloat. This isn’t a self-help blog. It’s more of a help-yourself-while-I-stumble-through blog. It’s about the collective…
-
Lemonade and Pearls: A Childhood Lesson on Kindness
One long summer day, a string of fake pearls turned into a lesson on kindness. My dad was a fair, practical man, with a great sense of humor and a twinkle in his eye. He worked two full-time jobs — farming by day and repairing planes at Dover Air Force Base at night. He faced constant pressure to keep the family financially afloat. Leisure was a luxury he rarely experienced. On our family farm, everyone worked. My younger sister and I were tasked with simpler chores — like dusting and folding laundry. These jobs offered time for play, and we were often concocting some Tom Sawyer-like plans of making money.…
