by Kelly Richardson | Nov 18, 2025 | Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
If your college student is coming home for Thanksgiving, here is my one piece of advice: don’t plan too much and over schedule their brief time at home. College kids are tired — emotionally, socially, mentally, and physically. Many carry invisible fatigue. They’ve...
by Kelly Richardson | Nov 11, 2025 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
My first job-job was at Video Biz, a movie rental store tucked between a Mervyn’s and a dry cleaner in my hometown strip mall. I say job-job because before that, I’d done the usual teenage hustle—babysitting, working in the high school office, and picking up odd jobs...
by Kelly Richardson | Nov 4, 2025 | Aging Parents, Book Buzz, Relationships
There I was, quietly sobbing on a plane. Exit row. No one beside me. Just a pile of damp Kleenex and the blur of tears clouding my view out the window. I had just finished “When Cranes Fly South” on my flight home from visiting my son and his fiancée. It’s a tender,...
by Kelly Richardson | Oct 28, 2025 | Just Doing Life, Relationships, Teenagers
Last week I injured my neck- the kind of pain that takes your breath away. My husband sat with me while I cried. He massaged my shoulders, ran to the pharmacy, set up supplies next to the couch, bought a heating pad, asked the trainers at work how to help, and checked...
by Kelly Richardson | Oct 21, 2025 | Just Doing Life, Parenting, Relationships, Self Care
The older I get, and the more I watch my kids navigate their own friendships, the more I realize how smart their generation is. They see things we sometimes forget. Recently, while at dinner for Family Weekend, one of my daughter’s besties said something that stopped...
