Category: Relationships
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Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Find What You Focus On…Good or Bad
Why did we get so upset last week? It wasn’t like him at all to behave the way I’d thought, and it wasn’t like me at all to behave the way he’d thought. It was like other people, though, and it was exactly like our worst fears, and that’s what we saw. It doesn’t…
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Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: Romantic Relationships
For those of you who have been patiently waiting this last month for me to blog about my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, thanks for waiting! My boyfriend had been right: this journey was to be “an inflection point” in my life. Not a term I would have used but hey, engineers…what can I…
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Relationships Aren’t Always How They Appear from the Outside
Photo: Rose growing high in a tree. Beauty is sometimes in unexpected places. Some of my  friends and family are worried about me. They’re concerned about my relationships, one in particular. It’s not a bad relationship. In fact, I consider it the sweetest, most caring relationship I have ever had with a man. Yes, any man. …
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The Kindest Thing: Emotional Support and Queen of Cups Card
At the end of the Mabon Gathering in my home and a night of food, deep conversation, and a round-robin of Tarot reading, my friend Patrick read my cards last. It turned out to be extremely comical–and eerily accurate–especially since I never posed a question and Patrick had no idea what had been going on…