Reading Between The Pines
Focus on the positive in the new “normal”
Reading Between the Pines By Stacie Chadwick As I sit down to write this column, I feel like I’m living in some kind of space-time continuum that’s on overdrive. Bad news hits my brain at such high speed that it’s in fifth gear trying to process things that are happening too quickly for me to…
What’s your why?
By Stacie Chadwick On any given day, people all over the world do extraordinary things. Halfway through my journey on this Earth, my question is…why? When I was 39, my fast-approaching “big 4-0” loomed large, hovering over me like a lingering cough. There was nothing about aging up into a new decade that I looked…
The power of saying no
Reading Between the Pines By Stacie Chadwick From a very early age, my parents taught me to be kind. To everyone. And I am, sometimes to a fault and so much so that with the best of intentions I get myself into trouble. I love connecting and creating in an effort to help others. It’s…
A new meaning for a traditional holiday
Reading Between the Pines: by Stacie Chadwick As parents, my husband and I expect our three teenage children to pull their relative weight in the family. Grades are important, chores mandatory, and the economics of a burgeoning life on their own are discussed and debated in a way that often puts five distinct personalities on…
Reading Between the Pines: Thank you. Why are these two simple words sometimes so hard to say?
By Stacie Chadwick When I was a senior in high school, I applied to two colleges. The first was the school I was destined to attend. The second? An afterthought, just in case the world’s largest sink hole, triggered by a flying unicorn tethered to an alien spacecraft piloted by Tom Cruise, happened to swallow…
Reading Between the Pines: Breaking up is hard to do
By Stacie Chadwick When I mentally check my list of things I know without doubt, there’s one truth that always sits toward the top. That is, the only thing you can count on in life is change. Whether you see this as positive or negative, life often rolls in its own direction at will and…
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