This is where the story begins… It seems like such a long time ago now, yet, it also feels like I’m still living so much of this story — include all of the lessons. Anyway. If you want to jump around on this narrative journey, click here to review the Table of Contents.

A casual observer is sipping a cappuccino at a cafe table outside of a French bistro. When he looks up, he spots a woman walking toward him. She’s well dressed, and her golden blonde hair is pulled back into a low-slung ponytail. The observer watches as the woman digs around in her expensive-looking handbag to […]

My husband has this crazy yellow Hawaiian shirt that he likes to wear on hot days. I don’t think it’s meant to be ironed, but I can’t look at him in a wrinkled shirt! He was wearing that shirt today, and all day, I kept beating myself up over this very odd rippled wrinkle on […]