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It’s late and my phone lights up with a text. It’s a friend of mine who may or may not have had a fight with her wedding dress. It seems the dress lost. It’s now in a dump somewhere. And seed pearls now scattered, adorn the floor of her laundry room. This is divorce. The…

I talk to people about divorce all the time. I joke that I am the ‘Divorce Whisperer.’ I know many secrets and I keep them all. I share the other stuff. The things that people give me permission to or the universal truths. So many people that I meet tell me that they lost themselves…

I punch at the computer keys. Tears find their way down my cheeks. I dab at them while my chocolate Labrador Hazel snuggles closer to my feet. I find myself chuckling. In between the tears, that is. After all, I am editing my own work. Am I that good a writer that I move my…

Overly caring people put up with behavior that most people would walk away from. We know this. They give people not just one chance, but rather a million chances. Here’s the thing. When the overly caring person forgives the first bit of bad behavior, those around them recognize reality. However, once the overly caring person…

I was nineteen when I met my husband. One night while we were walking the streets of Scranton, Pennsylvania, I made an announcement. I told him that if he was serous about me that he needed to know I was serious about one thing – and if he ever brought that one thing into our…

I often know what I am going to write my column about on a particular day, but then something shifts and changes my mind. I drive down the road with the radio blaring. The words from the song catch me. I have never heard it before, but it does what truly great songs and writing…

My hand reaches for the snooze button on my iPhone. I toss and turn a bit not quite ready to start my day. I realize as I wake up this morning that something is different in my life. Like I have cut loose the 500 pound boulder that has been dragging behind me. At first…

I sit with a friend who has recently divorced. She is a beautiful person with an equally beautiful heart. The more we talk, the more I realize that she still struggles with one thing. It is actually what I have struggled most with and what the majority of divorced people struggle with. The effect divorce…

Would you stand idly by while a grown man bullied a woman and children? I am hoping the answer is ‘no.’ TELL ME WHY THEN, IS IT ACCEPTABLE IN DIVORCE? The courts can’t help because their focus is custody and finances The family of the person being bullied can’t help because the bully doesn’t care…

I am out to lunch with my friends Anne and Jan. Jan has recently lost two people in her life. “I’ve lost my anchors,” she says. I feel her words deeply. There have been so many times these past several years that I have wished for my mom or my uncle who was like my…
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