Jennifer Goble

As I address Suicide Awareness Month this month, I speak to the family and friends who are left to live without their person. I write with the utmost reverence and respect for the life ended and for the families and friends who are suffering and trying to put the pieces together. I don't pretend to be in your shoes—I write from what I've re . . .

For my final article on the painful topic of suicide, I want to address warning signs and suggest what to do if you notice the signs.

I recently heard someone use King Maker in a sentence, and I asked what it meant. They explained with an example: Take Apple, for example—all of us using Apple products have made them a King of the…

A friend my age has been in love and communicating with a guy for 50+ years. Yep, fifty years. He married in college and had kids; she worked, never married, and had no kids. His wife died unexpectedly—OMG, he was available.After nearly a year of waiting a respectable time, he still had not mentioned her […]

The Oxford Dictionary defines excitement as “a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.” It is synonymous with words like joy, pleasure, thrill, adventure, treat, and delight.

Many of us have voted or will vote soon, and the whole process makes me think of the complexity of decisions—choices. Months, maybe years ago, we each started processing our thoughts, forming a wish or hope list for what party we supported, who we wanted to represent us, and cementing a defense for our position.

My favorite things do not match the song lyrics in “The Sound of Music,” but I would like to know if we identify, think about, and do our favorite things often enough. What are your favorite things?Gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation are vast elements of mental wellness, and we need to know our favorite things and […]

I'm writing this before we know the election results, so I hope this finds all humans acting human. I look forward to less drama and more civility in our homes, communities, and country. If you're reading this, your team either won or lost, the world didn't end, and the sun came up like it always […]

I saw this quote somewhere: “We find what we look for.”At first, I thought, “That's not true.

While sitting on an airport shuttle, a man to my left said he would visit his aging mother in TX and said he had to get a ranch sitter. A woman to my right said, “Oh, I can’t image a RANCH sitter I…