by Susan McCorkindale | Dec 11, 2019 | Divorce, Resilience, Thought of the Day
When someone we love is grieving, our first inclination is to do or say something helpful. So, we rush in bearing food and hugs, and then we stand there, searching for the right thing to say. And then, because we’re just clumsy about grief and grieving in this...
by Susan McCorkindale | Nov 29, 2019 | Bounce, Divorce, Resilience
A Little Fear Is a Good Thing… A few years ago, when my younger son and I left my ex-husband and moved into an apartment, I discovered a quote that I fell in love with. It simply says, “If you can’t beat fear, do it scared.” Every morning I’d read that quote and...
by Susan McCorkindale | Aug 17, 2018 | Autism, Cancer Sucks, Confessions, Death, Divorce
Raising a child with autism is the topic of today’s episode of Flaws Are The New Black. You can watch it on YouTube and I hope you will. I appreciate the feedback (this is only my second episode) and am eager to begin an ongoing conversation with you about oh,...
by Susan McCorkindale | Jul 25, 2018 | Autism, Cancer Sucks, Death, Divorce
Nice likeness, huh? I’m kidding, of course. I mean naked in the figurative sense. I’m baring my soul to you, the people who’ve followed me through cancer, autism, death, divorce, single parenthood, weight loss, weight gain (you really must see my...
by Susan McCorkindale | Sep 2, 2016 | Divorce
I have almost as big a thing for quotes as I do for shoes. Maybe bigger. Almost every day I find another saying (or three) that I print out and tape to the wall above my desk. Unfortunately, the one that’s probably most visible in this photo is...
by Susan McCorkindale | Jun 7, 2016 | Divorce
This morning, for the first time in a very long time, I got up, put on my exercise clothes, and went for a speed walk on the trail that runs along the old railroad tracks near my house. I gave a split second thought to saying the hell with it and walking to Safeway as...