by Beth Lueders | May 21, 2020 | Blog Post, Death, Perspective
Memorial Day with its poppies is a beloved classic nationwide. For some, Memorial Day represents cookout feasts and parties kicking off the unofficial summer season. For others, the day is a more solemn time to remember the courageous military men and women who died...
by Beth Lueders | May 14, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Perspective
Shhhh . . . I’ll dish some dirt. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Growing up in southeast Nebraska, where the soil reminds me of moist German chocolate cake, my preschool self decided, well, to investigate the gooey richness. One spring day when my dad was...
by Beth Lueders | May 7, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
My mom is no longer around to celebrate Mother’s Day, but that never stops me. For some of us, Mother’s Day without a mom is, well, kind of awkward. Half empty. Even if you do still have a living mother, Mother’s Day can be a bit of a letdown. Some of our...
by Beth Lueders | May 1, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
Being truly thirsty is not much fun. Flat out parched. When your tongue feels like extra-coarse sandpaper and your throat is begging for relief. Whether we’ve been active in the hot sun or just too busy to remember to drink fluids, I think most of us have experienced...
by Beth Lueders | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Resilience
What would social distancing look like in Grandma’s Day? I wonder. My paternal grandmother, Anna, was larger than life to me. Granted, she was a sturdy 5 feet, 10 inches tall with a size 11 foot (imagine trying to find Chuck Taylors in the early 1900s that fit), but...
by Beth Lueders | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
In a way, I have to chuckle. In a way, not so much. Unraveling life’s knots can be a delicate dance between precision and frustration. Unraveling knotted and tangled shoestrings, necklaces, electrical cords, Christmas tree lights, garden hoses, dog leashes, and so...
by Beth Lueders | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
Sometimes I find myself pressing to know how the future unfolds. I want assurances that everything will work out according to my wouldn’t-it-be-grand hopes. Maybe you can relate about how your own future is unfolding. Many of us feel squeezed right now into a COVID-19...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog Post, Resilience
Her glazed and dazed look still startles me. Keep calm. Step up. Her darting eyes cast a more gripping fear than catching the novel coronvirus. The elderly woman scanning the empty shelves at Walmart the other night reminds me of me in another twenty-five years. Oh,...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
Worry and panic are clawing into everyone’s psyche these days as COVID-19 creates scary headlines around the globe. But the novel coronavirus is not exactly the horrific bubonic plaque of the 1300s that killed an estimated 75 million to 100 million throughout Europe....
by Beth Lueders | Mar 5, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
Women’s History Month? Just a month? I think we should celebrate women every day. After all, we are the ones who invented coffee filters, non-reflective glass, Liquid Paper® and Kevlar®, the heat-resistant material used in bulletproof vests, helmets and tires. Oh, the...
