Mike and I are anxiously preparing to travel to London and Edinburgh over Spring Break. It’s been a couple of years since I journeyed outside the country, so this week I’ve been making an…

Do you have a motto—words that you try to live by, or words that express the way you live your life? I know many people who use pieces of scripture for that purpose (although…

I grew up in a church-going family: every Sunday, no matter the season or the weather, we went to church. This was mostly a function of my mother’s upbringing. My dad attended church because…

Perfectionism isn’t anything new for me. I’ve been my own worst critic for as long as I can remember. As a perfectionist professor, leaving a class and thinking things didn’t go as well as…

Last week was pretty difficult. Monday morning, I discovered that my car was being sluggish when I tried to start it. I thought perhaps the engine was just cold after a weekend of being…

Recently I came across this article about the morning routines of 21 “successful” women. (I’m putting “successful” in quotation marks there because it’s subjective. I think we each have our own definition of success.)…

I’ve written before about my decision not to dye my graying hair any longer. As I mentioned then, hair color was never really an effort to hide the fact that I was aging. It…