• Bare feet on bathroom scale

    Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me

    Like a lot of women, I’ve thought about my weight fairly often. I’m at a point in my life now where it’s less important than in used to be–in truth, I rarely ever weigh…

  • Laptop computer and receipts
    New Directions

    Money Management Without Fear

    To begin, a confession: for many years, I had absolutely no idea how much money Mike and I had in the bank at any given moment. He was happy to manage our finances, and…

  • Reader Mail

    Reader Mail

    I always love receiving your comments on blog posts, whether they’re left here, on Facebook or Instagram. Once in a while, I even get a personal message from a reader. I always answer those…

  • Scrabble tiles spelling out self care

    Caregiver Self-Care

    Dealing with the recent big changes in my life has been stressful, to say the least. Like most people, I’m not the best version of myself when I’m stressed out. I have the habit…

  • New Directions

    My Word of the Year for 2020

    If you’ve been reading She Dwells for awhile, you know I traditionally choose a word of the year. I do this for several reasons, but mostly to help myself identify something I’d like to…

  • Goodbye to 2019

    You may have noticed that things in the She Dwells community have been pretty quiet for the past few months. That’s because this last portion of 2019 did not, shall we say, go to…

  • Gifts

    Self-Care for the Crazy Days

    We’re knee-deep in that post-Thanksgiving/pre-Christmas period that I not-so-fondly refer to as the Crazy Days. For me, it begins with giving and grading final exams. Then there’s the shopping, the social events, the rich…