Several weeks ago, I wrote about the New Beginnings phase of life when you're transitioning into your new world-- whatever change you've gone through. Referring to Bill Bridges Map of Change, we looked back at going from Endings and traveling through The Gap and then climbing up on the bank of the other side of … Continue reading New Beginnings: Flying Lessons
Month: July 2021
Damaged Goods: Online Dating
It was a dark night last winter when I was tossing and turning and woke from my fitful sleep at four in the morning. I had been discouraged the day before after months of isolation from the pandemic and going through divorce. It was one of those times when you have a hard time seeing … Continue reading Damaged Goods: Online Dating
I’ll Stand With the Poor
Last Friday would have been Mama's ninety-eighth birthday and I was remembering two years ago when we had our final celebration with her. It had gotten harder over the preceding years because she seemed barely aware that we were having a birthday celebration; dementia had changed her so much. But at the last celebration she … Continue reading I’ll Stand With the Poor
Free to Inhabit a New World: Beginnings
Another Fourth of July holiday, another half-year gone and with the time-fog of the past year it's like what a woman said when she rang up my purchases yesterday: "The year of the pandemic seemed like ten years and this year has felt like one week." I understood that sense of distorted time and have … Continue reading Free to Inhabit a New World: Beginnings
Connie Rosser Riddle 