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Writer’s Block, a Broken Thumb, a Championship and Peas for a Fish???
It's been a minute since I've written. That's because I've been having a little bit of writers block and also because I've been looking...
Shari
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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How Divorce Makes me Feel Guilty on my Child’s Birthday
Ten years ago was one of the happiest days of my whole life. It's the day I became a mom for the first time! Little did I know then how...
Shari
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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Putting on a Show
This post came up on my Facebook memories from 3 years ago. It hit me hard when I read it because so much of that sadness cane back to...
Shari
Aug 28, 20232 min read
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No Need for Apologies
A couple weekends ago, I spent the day with my mom. I always love days spent with her. I appreciate them more now than I did in the past...
Shari
Aug 7, 20232 min read
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The Surprising Reason I Decided to Start another Online Business
Let me start with a little bit of a backstory here: In January of 2018, a friend brought to my husband and I the idea of extra income by...
Shari
Jul 25, 20232 min read
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Lesson Learned
I wanted to tell a story that started about 21 years ago in a Schnucks store in O'Fallon, Missouri. Bare with me on this one, it's...
Shari
Jul 11, 20233 min read
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I’m Gonna Need You to Stop
I spent the afternoon with some girlfriends yesterday at a winery - The Quarry- (https://quarrywinegarden.com/) and while of course we...
Shari
Jun 25, 20233 min read
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10 Things to Know About Dating a Single Mom
If you've been following along with me for any amount of time, you know that we've determined that dating in today's world is exhausting!...
Shari
Jun 11, 20234 min read
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Things No One Tells You About Divorce
It's been a little over a year and a half since my divorce was finalized, but I gotta tell you, there's many things I dealt with that no...
Shari
May 29, 20233 min read
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15 Things Every Woman Should Do in Her Life
As I'm getting older and as I've been writing this blog, I've been learning and finding things that I'm so glad I did in my life or...
Shari
May 17, 20235 min read
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5 Things You Need to Know When Dating a Trauma Survivor
You know how there's always those moments when you do something and you're like, man, I really wish I had done that differently. Or when...
Shari
May 5, 20232 min read
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The Dating App Debacle
Y'all, raise your hand if you've actually met someone online and dated them long enough for it to be a legit relationship. Okay, okay, I...
Shari
Apr 24, 20233 min read
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The Aftermath
'Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.' First off, this is the "end" of my...
Shari
Apr 18, 20233 min read
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The Start of the End
When I started doing research on the things I was experiencing in my marriage, things such as: feeling belittled, isolated from friends...
Shari
Apr 10, 20233 min read
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We All Make Mistakes
If you're still with me, thank you from the bottom of my heart! You don't know how much that means to me! I started reading a book...
Shari
Apr 2, 20233 min read
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Let Me Tell You How it Started
No one ever thinks when meeting someone new, that it could turn into some kind of bad dream you seem to be living. Almost like a bad...
Shari
Mar 27, 20232 min read
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You Grow Through What You Go Through
This story and the ones that will follow aren't so much about regret as they are about growth. Learning what we went through in the past,...
Shari
Mar 21, 20232 min read
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Dating Disasters - Part 1
We've all had our fair share of bad dates. Whether it was in high school, when we were dating before marriage or dating after divorce or...
Shari
Mar 17, 20234 min read
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I Think We Should Talk
Here I am, Sunday night, 9:36pm, laying in bed with a sleeping seven year old on my chest while I'm crying thankful that he's here but...
Shari
Mar 13, 20232 min read
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My Top 5 "Give Me Feelings" Songs
Does anyone else love and appreciate song lyrics as much as I do? Maybe that's because I enjoy reading and writing so much, but that's...
Shari
Mar 12, 20233 min read
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