by Beth Lueders | May 16, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Personal Change
Invaluable life lessons come to us from a myriad of sources. Even from unexpected places like a state correctional facility and an inmate sentenced to life without parole. For the past four years I have been communicating with a “lifer” prisoner via occasional phone...
by Beth Lueders | May 10, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Perspective
If you do an online search for “Mother’s Day gifts,” you’ll find at least 459,000,000 (459 million!) different gift ideas for dear Mom from chocolate-drizzled strawberries and fresh floral arrangements to crossbody bags and spa gift cards. But instead of sharing the...
by Beth Lueders | May 2, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People
Tap. Rap-tap. Tap. For the past several weeks I’ve heard the slight knock at my front door around 7:40 every weekday morning. My 11-year-old neighbor five houses up stops by now to greet Posie, my new collie girl who was a littermate to my Ayrabelle. Bit by bit, I am...
by Beth Lueders | Apr 25, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
Some words are worth remembering. America boasts some of the best two-word combos on the planet. Mashed potatoes. Fried chicken. Amazon Prime. Apple Inc. Walt Disney. In chapter one of my Two Days Longer book, I tell of an elderly widowed farmwife who quizzes me on...
by Beth Lueders | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People
Sometimes we just get a bit stuck. Stuck in the same ole routines. The same foods, the same drive to work, the same debate with a spouse, the same TV shows, the same thought patterns. And then we meet someone like Wendy, a seventeen-year-old student from Vietnam...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Perspective
There’s nothing like washing clothes in a laundromat to jostle our perspective on the things we take for granted. Things like dumping your clothes everywhere to sort them, not searching for coins to feed the washer AND dryer, and not having to hang around a public...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
Move over winter. Our new season of spring is the headlining news this week, but many of us are not quite ready to pack away our heavy coats and mittens. We know better in states with snow, but we get a bit giddy when the daytime temps push over 60. Wooo hooo! The...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Resilience
You just never know when your life may turn on a dime. Almost 19-year-old Amberley Snyder didn’t when she glanced down at her road map and lost control of her truck. In an instant she broke her back and faced starting life again from a wheelchair. I was honored last...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 2, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
You and I understand the in between. Those times in life when we are not where we thought we’d be and not where we want to be with our goals, our aspirations, our plans. I’m there right now, transitioning from a wonderful life with my beloved dog, Ayrabelle, and...
by Beth Lueders | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog Post
“One day can bend your life,” writes New York Times best-selling author Mitch Albom. I learned anew recently that he is painfully right. What bends your life right now? Relationship heartache? Illness? Depleted finances? A struggling child? Loss of a loved one? On...
