I am sure that a lot of us feel that we are moved by God/the Universe/Source to do all kinds of things. Like you check on a friend just when she was having a dark night of the soul, or you ask a friend a question that helps them talk…

I pushed up through the moist Spring earth.

It was pretty simple then. When the mannequins in department stores spoke to me, and helped me find my mother by pointing in the direction she had gone. When my tiny blue plastic mermaid slept safely on her cotton padding in a small white gift box in my desk at…

Here is a list of my articles by category. This page is copied from Joan Gershman with gratitude. My Categories (in alphabetical order): Birth and Parenting You have to fill the empty nest… Or it is really sad. When my youngest kid went to college a few years back, it felt so WEIRD to be home with just my…lynnethompson574.medium.com Surrendering to Motherhood with my au pair’s help I met my husband a bit later in our lives. He was 30 and I was 32. I had been married 7 years before that, and it was…lynnethompson574.medium.com

I didn’t — until recently. Jan Sebastian told me. She gives everyone the maximum number of claps (50) when she reads an article. What’s more, she highlights something in the story and usually leaves a comment. This helps you move up and get more noticed. We should all be doing…

I am 65 years old. And I remember a lot of things that are no longer here. I feel the need to inform the people around me (usually in the car), “Oh, that used to be the hamburger place with the honeybees on the sign.” It can be disorienting to…

It’s really hard when we lose someone close to us, or a friend loses someone suddenly. Grief can strip everything from us, our sense of security, our joy, our sleep! It pulls the rug out from us and we try hard to keep on going. After a while, we start…

I grew up in an alcoholic household. I am the child of an alcoholic. My father was what you call a “functional alcoholic,” whatever the heck that means. But he lived to be almost 89 and was drinking until the end. …

How far back do you remember? Not sure how this happens, but at my later age, I look back and really remember things, things from my childhood, specific events, days that happened over 50 years ago. My earliest memory is when I was about 3 years old. We lived in…