by Susan | Aug 10, 2021 | Awareness
Some days it’s easy to count your blessings. One of my blessings is great driving karma. When I was caregiving for Mike, we put over 57,000 miles on the two vehicles we drove to see doctors. This did not count miles to Colby (20 one way) to see his primary care...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2021 | Awareness, Relationships
Like a Ferris wheel turning round and round time moves on. Last month we moved my mom out of her house that she had been in for 50+ years. It was an arduous process, to say the least. There was a rush to get stuff from several households that she had collected. In the...
by Susan | Jul 27, 2021 | Communications, Horses, Lessons From the Horses
Last week I had a lesson in trust. Before I had children, I rode a horse almost daily. I had grown up showing in western events from halter to barrel-racing, my favorite events being the speed events. When I was in college I discovered jumping and fell in love with...
by Susan | Jul 20, 2021 | Awareness
Surrender – cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority. I’m having trouble with letting go of trying to manage situations. I have control only over myself, how I respond and what I do. Once I do what I can I have trouble surrendering...
by Susan | Jul 13, 2021 | Awareness, Horses, Lessons From the Horses
Do you ever have those moments when you’re so in your head you forget what you’re doing? While I was out feeding this morning, I started out to the horses with the food for the cats. I was so in my head I almost reached the fence. The horses were quietly munching...
by Susan | Jul 6, 2021 | Awareness
Do you ever feel invisible? Do you want to have Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility? I read a post this week where a woman said that when she was a child her parents didn’t acknowledge her so she would do things to get their attention. Which means she would get their...
by Susan | Jun 29, 2021 | Awareness, Communications
​To say moving my mom out of her house of 50 years has been an adventure might be an understatement. I’m learning a lot about why I am who I am. While going through my room I found a Keirsey Temperament Sorter that a counselor friend of my parents sent me when I was...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2021 | Awareness
Tests – the last few months have been full of them. My mom signed a contract on her house and will close in a little over a week. Along with that May was a month full of travel, some unexpected, and I no more than returned from Hawaii and I was in the final stages of...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2021 | Grief, Relationships
After a year we finally completed the celebration of life for my dad. It was a daunting task and I’d be lying if I said it went off without a hitch. I spent most of the week before going through old pictures to put in a video. Fortunately, he had scanned the old...
by Susan | Jun 8, 2021 | Awareness
It finally feels like summer. I’m back from my island vacation, feeling renewed, to a whirlwind of activity. I’m planning a celebration of life for my dad who died last year during the pandemic and my mother is moving out of the house that she’s lived in for 50 years....
