A Weekly Blog · WeStart Together
Real talk from the unfinished, one honest moment at a time.
I am building a business of my own while launching my almost-grown kids into the world, helping care for the people who raised me, and trying to keep my own cup from running dry, often all in the same week. Loose Ends is where I write about that in-between, honestly and one week at a time. No advice, no highlight reel, just what this season actually looks like from the inside, and the small, ordinary things that keep me going. If any of that sounds like your life too, pull up a chair.
New posts every Wednesday
The Threads
Life is a tapestry, and mine didn't come with a pattern. I stitch it together from these threads, working one at a time so no single strand pulls the whole thing out of shape.
The Build
Building WeStart in the open, one stitch at a time. The founder learning curve, the small wins and the faceplants, and what it takes to make something real from nothing.
Self-care
The thread that slips off the needle first when life gets loud. Movement, food, rest, and the Mid-Day Sparkle that keeps me from running on empty.
The Long Game
Planning a life of freedom on purpose, the way you lay out the pattern before you cut the cloth. What building toward "enough" looks like from the inside. Experience, never advice.
Launching
The "I do, we do, you do" years, now at the last stage. My almost-grown kids have the tools we spent years handing them, and our role is shifting from teacher to consultant: keeping them focused, sharpening a tool when it's needed, then trusting them to do the work themselves.
Caring for Elders
These are the ones who taught me how to use the right tool for the right job. Now the roles are quietly reversing, and I get to honor them for it: working shoulder to shoulder when we can, stepping in to carry what they can't, and savoring every moment while we still can.
God Moments
From underneath, a life looks like knots and loose threads. Every so often God turns the cloth over and lets me glimpse the pattern He has been weaving all along. These are those moments, told just as they happened.
Latest
After a Hands & Feet session on telling your story, I woke up with a question I didn't expect to be asking at this stage of life: am I a writer? A math-and-science nerd, a text from a retired teacher, and what keeps filling my cup.
Read the post →The morning after teaching my first Hands & Feet session, I was pasting my resume into yet another job site when my phone buzzed. A job posting I'd sent a friend back in June had sprouted, just not in my garden. What that text gave me in the middle of my own search.
Read the post →A former coworker texted me on the beach with a question I couldn’t shake: when that last severance check lands, is it tough, final, or a little freeing? My honest one-word answer, and what leaving a twenty-one-year job showed me about everything it was quietly holding.
Read the post →A program I built has sat finished on my screen for weeks, and later this month I'm finally going to stand up at my church and teach it. What it took to stop polishing, breathe in some courage, and step onto the branch before I know it will hold.
Read the post →New posts land here every Wednesday, and I share each one on LinkedIn. I'm not sending regular emails yet, but if you'd like to be the first to know when I do, leave your name below.