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
Economies of Motherly Scale
The year was 1992 and the class was Economics. The building where the class was taught is located right next door to the one where the attack took place on Monday at Ohio State. Certain places will always feel like home, and certain things will always never be tolerable. [Always-never: not great grammar, but no […]
Buddhists, Christians and Def Leppard…in no particular order
As some of you know by now, I’ve been taking graduate classes in Theology and am almost done with a M.A.T.S. degree (praise all that is good and holy and will allow for me to read smutty fiction books again instead of books that are too heavy to carry). It will be my second Masters […]
Post-Thanks-giving
It is the morning after Thanksgiving as I sit and write this to you. No, I’m not in a Target parking lot somewhere lamenting over the multitude of Black Friday shopping participants, nor am I eating a turkey sandwich for breakfast…or probably any time soon. What I am is reflecting on yesterday. It was and […]
Overcoming Bad Stuffing and Uninformed Decisions
In honor of Thanksgiving, I thought I might recount a story for you that involves stuffing, And, yolking. So I was newly married (new readers/jerk long-time friends: I’ve been married twice before – don’t judge, plus so has my husband. Keep up and we’ll get to the yoking part). Let’s start again. So I was […]
Don’t Waste Time With the Wrong Guy
In that I have a daughter in college, I often think about just how hard being in college is for girls. I mean, I’m sure it’s hard for dudes too, but c’mon. Like they’re thinking past the weekend. Classes, friends, social life, obligations, homesickness, bad sleep, and…guys. Being hit on by them, not being hit […]
Hungry For More
This has been a fantastic week. I say that because in no particular order, I have: spied on Liv successfully from afar during Little 500 week; researched obtaining a PhD; upped my mileage and effort for the pre-marathon training which begins officially on June 1; picked a wedding date; and had several excellent new business […]
Don’t Quote Me
My “job” allows me to meet many new people on a daily basis. My interests, endeavors, hobbies – whatever you want to call the “stuff” that fills the non-working hours – allow for me to meet even more people from “different walks of life,” i.e. “non-corporate/non-‘white-collar.’” Wow! How many “quotations” are you gonna use in […]
Who’s Gonna Be the Wein-er on November 8th?
WARNING: this is a political post and I promise I will get there. That’s code for ugh – one, politics we are all over, and two, yeah – verbose up ahead. You may have noticed the new forthcoming site that I’ve mentioned a few times is nowhere yet to be seen. Here’s why: how can […]
Religion AND Politics – and it’s not even Monday
Fast Eddie. That’s literally the name he goes by, and I can’t even tell you what his last name is or if he even has one. Like I’m one to talk. I met Fast Eddie the very first time I went to the church I’ve been attending since roughly June. It was one of the […]
