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How was Nighttime Anxiety Met When you Were a Child?
Note: I wrote this post when Everest was nine years old. He’s now eighteen. Of course, we’re long past the time when we would stay with him while he fell asleep at night, but I’m happy to share that we...
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There is Only One Way Through Fear, and I Had to Find it Last Week
Ever since our son, Everest, earned his private pilot’s power-plane license a few months ago I’ve been wanting to fly with him. Maybe “wanting” isn’t quite the right word; it’s more like I’ve been...
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A Journal Entry that Offers Guidance on How to Grieve
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I experienced a horrible/wonderful descent and initiation this past winter. There were many layers to the process (which I documented through hundreds of pages of...
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How an Unexpected Grief Opened Me to a Unexpected Joy
I decided to take the long way home. I had just dropped off our younger son at a sleepover, and our older one is in Kenya for two weeks on a service trip with his school. My husband and I would have...
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Expectations, Emotions, and Very Big Days
In today’s Gathering Gold episode, I offer some guidance to one of our Patrons, Olivia, who is worrying about being the center of attention on her wedding day and struggling with family expectations....
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