A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:21:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/ 32 32 26348127 On Artist Dates and Play https://adelightfulglow.com/on-artist-dates-and-play/ https://adelightfulglow.com/on-artist-dates-and-play/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:41:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50140 “Artist Date: A once-weekly solo expedition to explore something fun. Explore something that interests or entrances you. Artist Dates are assigned play. Plan an Artist Date ahead of time. Artist Dates are to be undertaken by ourselves, alone, with the reward of a heightened sense of autonomy. An Artist Date need not be expensive or [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/on-artist-dates-and-play/feed/ 0 50140 I Don’t Know How To Be The Oldest Person In the Room https://adelightfulglow.com/i-dont-know-how-to-be-the-oldest-person-in-the-room/ https://adelightfulglow.com/i-dont-know-how-to-be-the-oldest-person-in-the-room/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:20:07 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50132 I don’t know how to be the oldest person in the room.  I don’t want to be the oldest person in the room.  I want to pause my parents at 50 while I let my young adult children continue to grow and thrive. I love to watch their lives unfold and their interests expand before [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/i-dont-know-how-to-be-the-oldest-person-in-the-room/feed/ 2 50132 Middle-age Has Come For Us https://adelightfulglow.com/middle-age-has-come-for-us/ https://adelightfulglow.com/middle-age-has-come-for-us/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:34:32 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50125 Middle-age has come for us and we have met it squarely in the middle. Truth be told, I think we’re past middle-age as fifty hovers on the horizon, brighter and brighter. Readers. All the readers. I don’t mean people cozied up with good books. I mean lenses and temples and frames and a pair for [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/middle-age-has-come-for-us/feed/ 0 50125 On Odysseus, Becoming My Own Friend, and Who am I? https://adelightfulglow.com/on-odysseus-becoming-my-own-friend-and-who-am-i/ https://adelightfulglow.com/on-odysseus-becoming-my-own-friend-and-who-am-i/#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:05:56 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50121 The seats fill. The houselights go down. A collective crunch and rustle filters amongst the rows. Last minute stragglers, sodas in hand, backlit by the Spider-Man preview, slip into D-3 and D-4. We toggle our seat backs toward recline and stretch sandaled feet onto the footrests. Previews roll along in the buildup for our feature presentation.  I [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/on-odysseus-becoming-my-own-friend-and-who-am-i/feed/ 0 50121 Five Novels I Loved Set at The End Of Life https://adelightfulglow.com/five-novels-i-loved-set-at-the-end-of-life/ https://adelightfulglow.com/five-novels-i-loved-set-at-the-end-of-life/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:04:01 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50098 These five books might not always be found in a bookstack together, but I wanted to share them with you in one. I struggled with what to title this post and what should I say on a graphic? I know why I’m stacking them together, but how to condense it into a concise title? Helen [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/five-novels-i-loved-set-at-the-end-of-life/feed/ 2 50098 Explorer Bible Dictionary for Kids Review + Giveaway https://adelightfulglow.com/explorer-bible-dictionary-for-kids-review-giveaway/ https://adelightfulglow.com/explorer-bible-dictionary-for-kids-review-giveaway/#respond Fri, 29 May 2026 11:30:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50069 It looks like summer here. The wheat is golden. The heat and temperatures and wind are hanging out on our back doorstep. It tracks with our spring. Our tulips and peonies all burst into bloom about three weeks early and the wheat is following suit. I signed up to review and share a giveaway for [...]

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