Tag Archives: realationships
Stronger Than You Think
There’s the Bob Marley quote that you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. I’d like to add a few more adjectives there besides strong, as in, you never know how strong, resilient, creative, … Continue reading
Accepting His Beautiful Mess
Lou and I fit together like interlocking fingers, but I didn’t know how much I loved him until the day a speeding taxi missed him by the width of a fingernail. For whatever reason in that moment, I thought of … Continue reading
He Kept Falling for Me
For seven years I tried to make it work, but his height came between us. Joe Pye Weed was so tall that he would routinely fall over, relying on me for support. We both looked silly. He was gorgeous when … Continue reading
Around the Lake
For three decades, Jo Ann and I spent Friday afternoons walking around Minnesota’s Lake Winona. We walked through pregnancies and miscarriages, through homeopathy school and university tenure, through Weight Watchers and evolving wardrobes, through caring for daughters (and sometimes their … Continue reading
Question
Who am I being called to become right now ?
Real Life of an MSW 