by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Aug 14, 2020 | Getting Real: The Blog
I need an old oak tree, with space around it to inhale; not too much to ask for. I can’t breathe in neighborhoods. Can’t feel the gritty earth pressing up through my toes. It takes an old farmhouse to hold me in its stories – one of many who have...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Oct 20, 2019 | Getting Real: The Blog
I’m on a houseboat. Never done this before… Jeff took us up to Smith Mountain Lake this weekend to celebrate our birthdays. The days leading up to this trip found me with a knot in my stomach. I couldn’t say why, and I also couldn’t shake it. The night before I...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Jan 6, 2018 | Getting Real: The Blog
I’ve been needing a recharge. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have an amazing life! Jeff and I got married this past September, after 8 years of waiting, building our relationship, and parenting our boys. I’m still blown away by the depth of joy it brings, to weave our...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Oct 16, 2017 | Getting Real: The Blog
I’m not a thrill seeker. I’m not one of those folks who is hooked on adrenaline. True, my lifelong love affair with horses has me court high adrenaline moments on a more regular basis than some, but that’s not the draw for me. Unfortunately, I’ve spent more years of...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Sep 11, 2017 | Getting Real: The Blog
Yesterday, my life changed. Jeff and I got married. I wasn’t anticipating the depth of the change this has wrought in me. For both of us, this is our second marriage. There’s pain left over from a previous marriage. Scars. A reticence to trust, and fully open again....
