“When are we there, Aunt Lois?” A seemingly innocent question that was way more poignant than I’d initially thought when asked by my niece as we traveled from site to site, city to city on a family tour of China (that’s Grace above, peering at me between the seats of our bus in Beijing). It turns out I’d asked this question of myself often, not… read more
I recently had coffee with a successful author in town, introduced by a mutual friend who thought this witty lawyer-turned-writer might be helpful to me as I'm gaining my sea legs as a blogger. It caught me completely off guard when she, herself a mother of two, asked, "What does your mother think of your writing?" Rarely at a loss for words, the tears that… read more
So what internal misalignment was my ever-wise body trying to make me notice through the manifestation of an autoimmune disease? My subconscious life-long belief that I wasn’t lovable, that I didn’t deserve to be in a committed relationship with a partner who would love, honor and respect me exactly as I was. I’m certain it was no coincidence that the disease had manifested and steadily… read more
