Women Who Eat Chocolate

My newest column which will be published next week. Early for you on the blog. Check out all my columns on The Holmes County Bargain Hunter .  My August is a precipice, a steep cliff that keeps dropping away from me ever steeper. I stand on this edge not only peering out at the drop, but looking ahead in the distance. I can’t quite make out what’s ahead in the hazy ephemera, but I know it’s there – solid and warm - waiting for me to arrive. My husband stands with me on this cliff, just a step back, and together we watch our last child prepare to leave the familiar nest of home. Together we launched our eldest into her future some five years ago, and I wept. Four years later we delivered our middle child to her destination, and I wept. As I write, in two days we deliver our youngest to his starting point. I have been adamant over the years that they consider what is different - to see what is out there for them that doesn’t keep them near my sticky fingers. Thos...

"Silence becomes cowardice then the occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly." -Ghandi

Though not yet published in print or on the website for The Bargain Hunter , here is my newest column. Some successes and some failures - yes, we all have failures and should voice them so we do BETTER. Let's be honest here. Successes and Failures: Summer 2014 Edition August is half over. I repeat - August is half over. I really did have a lot of plans for this summer. Read books that have been languishing on my shelves, go swimming, start writing my book. Alas, I did read two books and went swimming twice. Go me. Did I start writing my book? No, but I feel the writing bug coming on and soon my house will be a vast, empty echoing hall of its former self when the kids leave the end of August. There soon will be no more excuses. This is my compiled list of successes and failures (not really failures per se…) of the summer of 2014. Hey, we all have aspirations of at least TRYING to accomplish things, don’t we?     1) Hunter’s grad party – success. We’ve ...