Beth’s Blog
I've been blogging since 2012.
It’s no coincidence that’s less than a year after my second divorce, and what I thought was the end of my goal-oriented life. I write about unifying life experiences—often the stuff people think but don’t say out loud.
You will find posts on both overcoming traumatic events and achieving goals including the following topics:
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- divorce
- having cancer (leukemia) and a Bone Marrow Transplant
- mom/daughter dynamics
- raising a teenager
- single-parenting
- dating as an almost 40-year-old (not) virgin
- Christianity
- becoming an avid marathoner
- and empty-nesting.
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Oh…and I write a lot about leadership, career development, corporate culture and USING YOUR VOICE in the workplace. #changeyourtone.
Latest on the blog
WOTY2.0 and Spring Break: Week 3
“Is this it, Mom?” Feeling like Mother of the Year, I reluctantly answered my sweet, yet apparently-I-like-to-forget-she’s-seventeen year old: “Yep, pretty much.”“But does it like, DO anything?”“You mean other than being one of the world’s seven natural wonders?”Clearly I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a seventeen year old girl. Back in the day, if my mom […]
WOTY2.0: Rising to the Occasion
I have no idea what day it is. Thursday? I think it’s Thursday. Someone once told me (probably my Mom…she did end up being right after all) that the older you get, the faster the days go by. And the weeks. And the years. What she didn’t tell me is that, when you are in the middle of […]
WOTY2.0: The Stories We Tell
The last four days have been a lock stock and barrel whirlwind, to be sure. Wednesday night was the official campaign kickoff at Club Soda. Let me tell you how that went, because it was an absolute profusion of sentiment.As per my usual lately, I was completely blindsided by the emotional opulence the night brought. […]
A Year Later: WOTY2.0
Last year, I endeavored on a journey which was ineffable. When I was asked to campaign on behalf of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in an effort to raise massive amounts of money in a short amount of time, truthfully, my stomach sank. While I already knew my answer was a resounding “YES,” I was scared. For […]
Watchmen
Exactly 5 weeks from today, I will be in Boston. Hopefully by this time of the evening, we will be sitting downtown enjoying post-race activities, good conversation, and lots of laughing. It won’t even matter that my hips will be so sore I’ll be hobbling around like Kathy Bates paid a visit to my hotel room. […]
Unsubscribed, Milestones, and Crying
What a whirlwind the last two days have been. You may recall I am not a roller coaster fan. Once, someone tried to use a Cedar Point pickup line which was met (after the “oops, I do an ill-timed laughing thing”) with immediate disdain at the thought of being inside an amusement park. It’s pretty much repulsive […]
Cheated
8:03am? Wait. Right. Daylight Savings Time just went down. When I first moved to Indiana from Ohio back in 1997, I felt like Eddie Murphy must have felt when he went to Queens in Coming To America. Really? What do you mean they don’t sell beer in gas stations, have drive-thrus where you can buy a six-pack and a […]
Morning conversations
4:10am: “Going back to bed, have a good run.”4:10:03am: “K”(Me simultaneously closing and rolling my eyes while tossing and turning)4:11am: “Ugh, never mind. Peer pressure! On my way.”We’ve already logged a lot of hilly miles this week, and in roughly 8 hours, we are going to log 20 more. I really wanted to fall back asleep […]
Thornbirds
Sometimes, something which happens in the course of the day will inspire me to write. Ok, I HAVE to remember to blog about that later, the little transcriptionist inside my head diligently notates. But by the time the day is done, so am I. Really all I want to do is come home, slip into […]
