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Spirit

  • No Regrets

    If we spend too much time thinking about how our lives don’t match up to the dreams of our younger selves, then we are bound to be disappointed.  ~ Elyzabeth Wilder I love that…

  • Lessons Learned the Hard Way

    One of the great things about having adult children is that you get to be friends with them in a way you can’t when they’re younger. At this point, I’m no longer legally responsible…

  • The Travel Paradox

    Last weekend, I read this post by Allison Arnone (a blogger I love) in which she confesses to the fact that she really doesn’t enjoy travel. I found it funny that I agreed with…

  • Sand In Your Shoes

    This has been an unbelievably tough semester. There’s a long list of reasons why, but I won’t get into them here. The point is, I’ve been itching to work on She Dwells for months–literally,…

  • Keeping the Faith

    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…

  • Making Peace with Perfectionism

    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…

  • New Directions

    Good Morning, Better Day

    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.)…