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
On Running: The Love-Hate Relationship
I usually write about all things God related, but today I am going off script. <pause> <still pausing> Seriously? Everything is God-related – have you not been reading all my other posts? Gheese. That obvious baiting intro aside, in exactly 12 days, I will know if I qualified for the Boston Marathon. Under the heading […]
On “Controlling” Love
You can’t make this stuff up. If I had a buck for every time I started a sentence like that when speaking to my friends, particularly during my single years, I would no longer have to work for pay. Tuesday morning, I uttered those exact words to the group of men at the ministry where […]
Hoping I Get it Right: On Hope and Relationship
I teach first thing on Tuesday mornings at a local ministry, alternating between the male and female program residents. This morning I was with the women. The group varies as individuals move in and out of the programs, some graduating, some dropping out. We learn more and more about each other every time we spend […]
Come Together in Love
I started writing this yesterday, got sidetracked by work, work, work and other non-conducive-to-writing obligations and thus, did not finish. I had planned to this morning – but then, 17 people died yesterday in Parkland, Florida and I can’t stop crying. Or being mad beyond words that can possibly begin to explain it. My mind […]
Reconstructing the image of God
“You ain’t baptized, you ain’t getting saved.” Those were the exact words a woman in one of the classes I teach at a local ministry yelled out in response to another woman who said it’s no big deal if a Christian never gets baptized. The mood up to and until that point was light. Happy. […]
Three Strikes and You’re Not Out
About a month ago, I was accepted to Seminary. That sentence alone is enough to scare me and make a lot of people I grew up with laugh. I start in August and should have an M.Div degree in however many years thereafter. I don’t want to take Greek. I only ever learned to successfully […]
Unchanging Changes: How Relationships Can Illuminate Transformation
I was in Chicago over the weekend with my life-long best friend, Chelsea. When someone asked me how long it had been since we’d seen each other, I honestly couldn’t remember since no matter how much time goes by in between visits, it never seems long. The second we start talking, it seems like we […]
Having Perspective: Let Go and Hang On
It’s been almost eleven months since I moved to a new city. Now that I write that, I realize I could have had a baby by now in the same time-period if it weren’t for a little thing called menopause. While I could not imagine being pregnant at this age, I could totally imagine what […]
Everyone has something to say: why diversity and sameness matter
These days, there is no shortage of people talking about the following: Diversity Themselves Daily, we are inundated with news feeds and surrounded by conversations revolving around these two topics. And I have come to this non-genius conclusion: people are missing the point. Humanity being different is somewhat akin to Trump thinking NFL players taking […]
