The Personal Journey

I recently finished the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I had seen it in a bookshop in Moab and then found it at my local library when I got home. It’s a quick read. I started it before going to bed one night and then finished it in the morning. When I…

I recently returned from a trip to Moab, Utah with my husband and kids. We hiked at Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park, both a short drive from Moab. If you’ve never been in this part of the country before, make a point of going. The rock formations are spectacular, the colors are deep…

I talked with a friend who relayed her experiences in job hunting last year. She had several unpleasant encounters before “the door was slammed in her face”—interviewers profiling her psyche and wondering if she had ADD, expecting quotes from a favorite theorist in her discipline, and commenting that she didn’t have enough experience at one…

Tonight, I went on an unexpected car ride. I was retrieving my wallet from a restaurant I had been to less than an hour earlier. It was a 15 minute drive. As I re-traced my steps, I began to think about how many other times I had taken this road. It was the same way…

I just had the hard drive on my laptop replaced. After the Geeks on Call guy was finished, he gave me the old hard drive. It’s no bigger than a thin pack of playing cards. When I saw how small it is, I pointed to it and said, "My whole life is right in there."…