My One Little Word for 2020: Simplify

Happy New Year! My One Little Word for 2020 crept into my brain in October. I recognized it immediately as such: Simplify. As Henry David Thoreau said, “Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.” In October my OLW seemed clear to me, vivid, and solid. A perfect word that would look neat and orderly in a blog post. Simplify. But it isn’t that simple. (Perhaps my brain, just coming off a three-week haze of sinus infection turned acute bronchitis-on-the-edge-of-pneumonia-during-the-holidays, is making this more difficult.) As I write this on New Year’s Eve, having taken my third to last Read More

One Little Word: Passion

My One Little Word for 2015 was Embrace. I needed really long arms to embrace all that came at me this past year. It’s been a year of huge life changes, much joy and some sadness. My husband retired, we sold our home in one city and moved to a new home in a new city where two of our three children and their spouses live. Embracing this move was easy. We love being near our kids, it’s a lively, artsy, diverse city, and our new home is perfect for us. The flip side, of course, was leaving behind wonderful Read More