@bethvogt The Best We’ve Been, the third book in my Thatcher Sisters series, is a story about what happens when you lose control of your life. The book releases today, during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. A time when it seems as if each one of us — no matter where we live, no matter our occupation or vocation, or where we …
In Others’ Words: Listen Carefully
Do you prefer to talk or to listen? I admit it: I love participating in a good conversation. A conversation between friends or family, sometimes interlaced with laughter or perhaps tears, can be refreshing. Healing. But more and more over the years, I’ve learned to talk less and listen more. I had to be intentional about being quiet and listening. …
In Others’ Words: Do You Hear What I Hear?
I wouldn’t say I never listen. But there have been times when I haven’t listened. Sometimes it was a case of tuning someone out — yes, deliberately — because I didn’t want to hear what was being said. Sometimes it was exhaustion, pure and simple. And sometimes I didn’t realize my attention had wandered until something — a question maybe, …
In Others’ Word: Choosing Fun
“When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.” Earnest Hemingway (1899-1961), American author & journalist Sometimes I forget to have fun. Does that ever happen to you? I get so caught up in the business — also known as “busyness” — of life, that I can’t be bothered with something as silly as fun. I’ll …