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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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I Think You Can
I shoved the bike as hard as I could and let go. As a parent, I was never convinced my life lessons landed with my kids. One cool late September morning in Georgia, while lacing up my running shoes, I looked over at my ten-year-old daughter, Kristen, drawing at the kitchen table. Sixty-four brand-new crayons were strewn about, totally emptied from their yellow box. A mop of thick blond hair hung around her face. Her bare feet were tucked under her, on the wooden chair. Still in her nightgown, she clearly was not dressed for outdoor play. “Let’s go outside,” I said. “You ride your bike, and I’ll jog by…
