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
An Owed to mothers.
I gave it a day. That’s not the first time I’ve had to do that, simmer down, take a day, chill out before speaking. Like I have a choice with the Italian-Irish heritage and its strong but loving feedback. I gave it a day to talk about Mother’s Day and not because I needed to […]
Dear Future Husband
The smell of popcorn wafted through the air as we sat on gray folding chairs. On stage, front and center, was a late-thirties woman I’d never seen before belting out the lyrics to Meghan Trainor’s Dear Future Husband. Lest you fear I have changed even more than previously thought and now enjoy this kind of […]
The Relational Struggle of Defining God
I can’t honestly say exactly when this whole “theology” (theos in Greek = God; ology = study of something) quest began, but here I am. Ah…I am. That’s a tricky little bugger in the Old Testament. It was also a tricky little bugger this morning as I was drinking coffee with my proverbial better half. […]
Choose, sorry.
Today is my birthday. Not the one on my driver’s license, not the one my mom gave birth to me in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1973 (that’s crazy math – don’t do it). Today is the eighteen-year anniversary of my bone marrow transplant; they call it your “birthday” for it is the day you have new […]
People are People
No, I’m not referring to Depeche Mode, but now that I think about it – maybe. If I started to list the things which have gone on for me personally in the last 6 weeks, one of two things would happen: you’d either think someone stole my login to WordPress and is imposter’ing their way through […]
Why 2016 was actually pretty great
2016 will go down as a year I will never forget. How could I? While many people will say in retrospect tonight as they are reviewing and pondering the last twelve months that 2016 was one of the worst years ever – from mass shootings, natural disasters, Civil War-esque decisions like North Carolina’s Anti-Transgender Bathroom […]
At One (Ment) at Christmas
Ryan and I were doing some last minute running around for Christmas late afternoon yesterday. I was driving. For those of you who have witnessed my driving either sitting shotgun next to me or roadside, in fear, you know this is an area in my life for which I need to practice some serious patience. […]
Shift Happens
My boss asked me once many years ago why I thought so-and-so who worked for us couldn’t close any business. He was asking me about a fellow sales cohort who worked out of our Indianapolis office. For all intents and purposes, Mike – let’s call him Mike since it’s a) commonplace and b) his real […]
The Middle of December
I had a customer meeting yesterday morning and as I was signing in, my pen stopped cold turkey next to “date.” “Is today the fourth?” I asked the receptionist. She looked at me as if there was no way she was going to announce my arrival since I was clearly an idiot with no business […]
