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Where have all the exes gone?

As I have looked forward to writing the past few days, it didn’t actually occur to me to write about past love interests and relationships. However, this is where my mind wandered this morning. Not so much to the people, themselves, but to this idea….that they are not currently a part of my life for…

by Jeanie Stephens August 27, 2025

If the sea brings me to it…

(The following was originally written in August 2024, just before a new person entered my life. Reading it now, just over a year later, I am struck by how soon the thing I was seeking here would be realized. It’s a reminder that what you think may become.) Returning from this year’s trip to Spain,…

by Jeanie Stephens August 27, 2025August 27, 2025

Everything and nothing…

(The following was originally written over two years ago in the spring of 2023. I share it now with the acceptance that not every post has to feel complete or perfect. Maybe it’s thoughts and words that went nowhere or I didn’t feel fully expressed what I wanted at the time. Or, perhaps I didn’t…

by Jeanie Stephens August 27, 2025August 27, 2025

I may never know…

My husband passed away over 14 years ago, yet it is the death of something else around three years ago that still has me in strange territory as I write this. Oddly enough, it isn’t some sort of co-dependent obsession, infatuation, unhealthy pattern, desire or anything of the like that’s brought me here. As far…

by Jeanie Stephens August 30, 2024

The doors that have opened…

The words that follow were written January 2, 2022. They were written, in part, because I didn’t want to forget certain details about an event in my life. They were also to be the beginning of a story……about the endurance of hope and faith, seeing that in another person, letting go, living in the moment,…

by Jeanie Stephens February 28, 2024February 28, 2024

The realization of us…

Failure….possibly one of our species’ greatest fears. Knowing that it can lead to the loss and destruction of our self-esteem, sense of worth, status, livelihood and the like, we often tend to avoid it. How do we avoid it? We refrain from taking risks. Maybe we stay in our current job or position because we…

by Jeanie Stephens September 13, 2023

The movement and play…

The impermanence of everything in this world is obvious anywhere one might look, yet we so often believe the unpleasantries of life will continue indefinitely. Why is that? Overall, the human perspective of time is interesting. We live our lives day to day, year to year, often never quite grasping the extent of change that…

by Jeanie Stephens August 28, 2023

Show me what you’ve got…

Not many weeks ago, I found myself writing about the classic Frankenstein film from the 1930s in one of the chapters of the book I’m working on. In this chapter, I express my early empathy for monsters and outsiders, never thinking I would soon resemble a mad scientist’s creation. Yet, today, this is more or…

by Jeanie Stephens February 22, 2023

The most beautiful gift…

Cancer is a scary word. Although skin cancer can be less scary, the word melanoma isn’t something anyone wants to hear. Melanoma is the most life threatening of the skin cancers, spreading to lymph nodes and internal organs in as fast as a few weeks. Yesterday, I found out that I have melanoma….on my neck.…

by Jeanie Stephens January 27, 2023January 29, 2023

The sound of the cosmos…

Another day, another step back and then forward again. I hadn’t planned to post something today, but here I am. With each moment, it would appear that I am going more and more mad/crazy….or whatever word a person wants to attach to it. Needless to say….there’s been a lot of judgement fired at me. In…

by Jeanie Stephens January 22, 2023January 22, 2023

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About Me

Hi, I’m Jeanie. Although a journalist by trade, I have always been enchanted with the idea of writing a book and this is where one may now find me in the latter days of 2020. Working on my first memoir, “From Eggshells to Extraordinary,” I spend my minutes exploring and writing about love, loss, relationships, personal growth, and my own journey and experiences in each of these. In fact, many of the stories, musings, essays, and articles you find in this blog touch on the same topics I also look to share and cover in the new book, so stick around. Subscribe, share, leave a comment (or two,) and even drop me an email if you want to connect and share thoughts and ideas. I’d love to hear from you!