This Woman Writes – by Carolyn Henderson

We all have one life, and the one we are given is the one that we have.
“Stuck with,” we are tempted to grumble when we compare our circumstances with our perception of other people’s lives. It is easy, especially in this day of shallow social media posts, to think that  everyone else has the perfect job, perfect relationship...

You don’t have to be that old (I’m not) to remember 3rd grade social studies books promising that we’ll all live on the moon someday. And we’ll drive around in cars that fly. And eat food that looks like pellets.
Now while the processed food that looks like what we feed the dog has bountifully come true, I find both my home and car still solidly on the ground. “Modern” life, so magically sci-fi when I was eight, is reduced to phones that — because the fliptop...

We have a twisted view of friendship in our society.
Actually, thanks to TV, movies, social media, and training from a young age in government schools, we have a twisted view of a lot of things, and much of adulthood, when we finally decide that we don’t want to live in a fantasy world, consists of identifying...

If you’ve ever been on social media, if you’ve ever seen a car commercial, if you’ve ever spent an hour in an office meeting listening to a motivational “expert,” then you know that there are a lot of people interested in your reaching your dreams and...