Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting
The next stage of TwinLife
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Month: October 2025
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Imagine this: it’s 7 PM on a Friday night. A group of writers gathers to find out what they will be writing that night. Each takes a starting and ending line home to write a 15-20 minute scene that will become part of a larger play. By dawn, the scripts are complete. The next morning,…
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Part of my identity involves being an advocate. I’m not usually the shout-into-a-megaphone kind of person, so my kind of advocacy might be called everyday advocacy. It involves showing up, organizing, and listening in spaces where voices need lifting. In the last week, I’ve found myself in three very different spaces that reminded me what…
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As I grabbed a basket of laundry, a few of my son’s clothes tossed on top, the tears threatened. They had been lingering just below the surface for over 48 hours. It was Tuesday morning, the last day of fall break for both my kids. The previous ten days had been filled with more emotion…
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Singing has always been my escape. High school presented a lot of challenges for me – especially socially – and my choir class was the one place where I could get lost for a while, sinking into the choral music or the show choir or the spring musical. As I dealt with academic stress, relentless…
Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting 