Once upon a time (before transforming into a Florence Nightingale caregiver), I was a fun-loving, joyful, and spirited woman, married to the love of my life, leaning into the shade of my magnificent tree of life: my Ultimate Concierge. He was rugged and dependable, ever present with those unmistakable red-framed glasses always just within arm’s […]

Darling, as most of you know, I have been living a cloistered life, not because I chose solitude as a lifestyle, but because my husband’s three year battle with dementia has quietly narrowed our world. Most days I am here in our condo in the sky with ninety percent of my time spent inside these […]

Darlings, February is the month we talk about relationships, and most of us immediately think of the people we love: our partners, our children, our grandchildren, our friends, our neighbors who feel like family. But today, I want to talk about a relationship many of us don’t name out loud, even though it touches our […]

Darlings, every January arrives with a certain kind of hush. The calendar turns, the world keeps spinning, and suddenly we are invited to begin again. Not in a dramatic, makeover-from-a-movie sort of way, but in the quiet way that actually lasts. The way that starts with a small decision made on an ordinary morning. And […]

As 2025 draws to a close, I find myself doing what I always do at this time of year. I slow down, look back and take inventory. Not of accomplishments or accolades, but of moments. Quiet, hard and sacred moments. The fierce moments that shape a woman more than any checklist ever could. Can you […]