As I place my worn suitcase on the scale at the airline ticket counter, I’m met with a very friendly airport official. “How many bags are you checking in today?” He asked in a chipper tone. Looking at the one bag I had placed on the scale, I smirked and said, “One?” He continued, “Did you …
Motivation & Perseverance
Find Beauty in All Living Things
Today's reminder: Love does conquer all. If you can find beauty in all living things, I think your heart can show through your smile and even through your tears. Knowing that your heart can feel a memory makes love, and the ability to love, that more precious. For me, my roses represent so …
Breathing
Breathing directions: Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. Seems straightforward enough, right? For most of us breathing is involuntary, a non-issue, basically pretty easy. I mean really, how many times does breathing cross your mind? Perhaps you wonder how long you can inhale your breath when you're …
Advice From My 96 year-old Grandmother
Today my Oma, that's german for grandmother, turns 96 years old. It doesn’t escape me that I have longevity in my genes and yet my daughter Jena couldn’t live to see her 14th birthday. Growing old is not a gift given to all, that is painfully real to me. But last week, I had the gift of …
The Bittersweet Irony and Lesson of a Transplant
Marc and I are finally renovating the house we built over 25 years ago. We are no longer that young couple that raised our family but empty nesters that never updated their house in 25 years. We concentrated on our kids, not our home, and it showed. Think the early 90s. Think flowers, stripes, and …
Meeting Jena; three years in the making
Another amazing Jena story that proves, yet again, that there are #NoCoincidences Since 2007, Marc and I have ventured out on our annual Jena Adventure to escape our self-proclaimed Hell Week. Our ‘hell week’ is the time between Thanksgiving and December 4th; between Jena’s last holiday with us …
In Search of…
Ok raise your hand if you remember the TV series, In Search of...? Yes? Then like me, you're old too. Remember the TV Series started with this narrative after that eerie music: "...This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture.The producer's …
Humpty Dumpty
To meet me, some think I have it all together. Some say I’m strong, amazingly in control and even fearless. Others say I’m just plain crazy. Well, yeah, they’re right. Truth be told, I’m also broken. Life is fragile and precious and it never quite turns out the way you originally …
