The past four days have been some of the most joy filled days of my life. My son was married on Friday in Lexington, Virginia. I’m so proud of Caleb and his new wife, Emily. Wednesday we left for Roanoke, where the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner was on Thursday. Friday we went to Lexington to […]

August 21, 2011 I drove away from Virginia Tech leaving my oldest son there to navigate his way through freshman year of college. Friday, that young man I dropped off four years ago graduated. We spent the weekend celebrating and remembering. We went to the Frosty Parrot for frozen yogurt. We started that tradition move […]

My mom wanted to have a different kind of relationship with my brother and me than she did with her mom. My grandmother was difficult to please and judgmental. My mom grew up with the pressure to please, but never felt good enough. It’s easy to repeat the negative patterns of your family of origin. […]

If you are a child, your job is to be a child. Eventually, you will mature and become an adult. But for now, you can relax and be a child. If you are an adult, your job is to be an adult. The problem in many relationships is that adults act like children. Children are […]

A couple of years into marriage, Greg and I took personality tests as part of training that we were doing. Our results showed that we were significantly less compatible than you would want in a marriage. In fact, we were about as opposite as we could be. The counselor doing the training was troubled even […]