Mar 2, 2017 | Ageing, Family, Letting Go, Love, Parenting |
LISTEN NOW The thrift store find last month: six vintage Seventeen Magazines from 1974. Right now, they are eating up a substantial chunk of desk space, large format, full colour editorial and advertisements; timeless teen content that predates the internet by a...
Dec 23, 2016 | Love, Parenting, Purpose |
LISTEN NOW You are enough. You have enough. You do enough. This can feel like the ultimate Noah’s Arc time – two by two couples march through the season, decking the halls and checking lists twice, conspiring over boozy eggnog for the perfect gifts for their...
Sep 22, 2016 | Ageing, Family, Parenting, Purpose |
LISTEN NOW https://graceandgoodfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/22.-Imaginary-Ages.mp3 My Mom feels 36 and is shocked every time she looks in the mirror and sees an old woman. Coincidentally, my imaginary age is also 36. While I don’t see an 87-year-old gramma,...
Jan 31, 2016 | Ageing, Family, Parenting |
You’ve seen them: The women in grocery stores who pilot their carts like walkers, taking every aisle as exercise. They drive slowly, park uncertainly, and chatter to strangers. We see them, and one day we may become them. “Welcome to the wonderful world of aging!” my...
Nov 10, 2015 | Family, Feeding the Soul, Parenting |
Last year the Tower of London was awash in bright red ceramic poppies. 888,246 of them carpeted the lawns, one for each soldier killed in the First World War. It was amazing; somber and uplifting all at once. We were lucky enough to be there, accompanied by my...
Oct 30, 2015 | Ageing, Feeding the Soul, Parenting
Halloween stirs up all kinds of things, a smoky mix of anticipation and fear, life and death, blood and chocolate. Since my daughter was very young, we have spooked it up with pumpkin carving and mummy dogs, gelatin brains and black candy apples. We dress up, the...