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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…
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Looking for Gatsby
“You can’t go home again.” The writer Thomas Wolfe believed that if you returned to a place from your past, it wouldn’t be the same. My husband Richard also says that. And yet he planned a fall trip around the Great Lakes, near where he was born, so that I could discover the area he had called home. It was good to get away. A year of medical issues had disrupted our life and well-made plans. We needed a change of scenery that didn’t involve gray walls and bright ceiling lights. After landing and touring Detroit, we headed north to explore Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior. After ten days, we…
