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Published Feb 18, 2025

Playing piano has always been my thing. Singing? Not so much. (I’m great at finding the harmony, but I’m definitely not solo material.) So, I surprised even myself when I stepped up to pinch-hit with a vocal solo some years back. Traveling with a girls’ choir from an Adult & Teen Challenge center in New […]

Published Feb 13, 2025

Get Outside For Your Mental Health I write a lot about being outside and the things I do outside. And maybe that seems confusing since I also talk a lot about mental health and being a therapist. But what if I told you that there is a TON of research on the affects of nature […]

Published Oct 15, 2024

By Gaye Lindfors I was walking past the graham crackers in the grocery store when the elderly woman in the blue wool coat pushing a grocery cart rushed up to me. “Where are the paper towels?” Her sense of urgency really caught my attention. It came through her voice and her eyes. Panic. Anxiety. Lots […]

Published Aug 20, 2024

By Tammy Borden The neighbors must have wondered why a stranger in her Sunday best was picking through the rubble where a barn once stood. Weeds and tree saplings had grown where stanchions once held holsteins, and granite field stones were scattered where they had broken free from the mortar and tumbled from the collapsing […]

Published Aug 13, 2024

By Tammy Borden This house…. This house is in the small village of Ampleben, Niedersachsen, Germany. It’s where my mom (Waltraud) lived as a teenager during World War II. Held inside its walls were some of her most heartbreaking secrets and sorrows. Nearly a decade ago, my mom and I walked the cobblestone street in […]