Feel Like a Failure? Maybe It’s Just That You’re “Off-Time”

Posted by Transitions Through Life on July 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

College graduates are moving home, the place they would least like to be. The reason-it’s the economy, stupid! Dylan Suher, a recent college graduate defines his moving home as a failure. “The feeling that the natural order of life-that you become an adult and then you leave home-has been disrupted.” (New York Times, July 17, 2011, SR, p. 7). But college students are not alone.

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Life on Hold: Transitions Waiting to Happen

Posted by Transitions Through Life on June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

“I haven’t died on schedule” wrote Mark Trautwein in his New York Times opinion piece (Sunday, June 5, 2011, p. 8). After his diagnosis he lived his life waiting to die. Prince Charles has spent a lifetime waiting to be King.

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Location, Location, Location—You Are Where You Live

Posted by Transitions Through Life on May 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

We constantly hear-location, location, location especially when realtors are discussing view, and neighborhood status. But there is a different way to think about location, location, location.

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