You can sail through years of your life, never experiencing a great loss, and then – bam! If you are a human being, you can’t get through life without experiencing gut-wrenching loss. Unfortunately, I have never really known what it’s like to “sail through years of your life without ever experiencing a great loss.” My […]
Throughout my life, I’ve looked into different religions, and a half a century in, I still get confused. But one thing I have known all along, and becomes more apparent as the years go by, is that you draw into your life, what you focus your thoughts and energy on. That’s not to say that […]
July 2, 2018Everyone’s worst nightmare.There’s a knock. You open the door and there stands the coroner, telling you that your brother has been found dead in his own home. According to the coroner, what they believe happened is, he woke up in the pre-dawn hours and felt his blood sugar was low. He walked from […]
“No one knows you, like they know you, and no one probably ever will.” ~Ben Rector In 1964, when I was just three years old, my parents bought a brand new home in a newly built subdivision in a suburb of Denver. My first friend, Dallas, lived two doors up from me. Almost every memory […]
I remember. I was 10 years old and I was sitting in the back seat of my parents car. We were waiting for my dad, who had run into the store. Mom turned on the radio, while we were waiting. A commercial was just ending and the DJ announced the next song as “Maggie May” […]
Once you get to adulthood, life seems to be just one long series of renovations – your house, your relationships, your body, your soul. We paint the walls, go to couples counseling, do the botox and read self-help books, but those things don’t really change us and who we are at our core. It’s only […]
It has come to my attention that my previous blog post may have come across as angry or vengeful – saying you shouldn’t waste your time on people who don’t know what they want. While I still believe this to be true, there is much more to it than that. So, please let me clarify. […]
I came across this quote by Anna Wintour, this morning, and it really got me thinking how true this statement is. All my life, I’ve been on both sides of this statement. At times, I have been the one with uncertainties and, more times than I’d like to admit, I’ve wasted precious time on people […]
Someone asked me the other day, if I believed in angels. I had to take a minute and collect my thoughts before answering. I never know how much of my beliefs to divulge. I have an extremely close relationship with death. I was born into a grieving household – my father was killed by a […]
February 6th – the happiest day and the most painful day, of my life. On February 6, 1965, at 3/2 years old, I was happily staying with my grandparents while my mom and dad were at the hospital, getting ready to bring my baby brother home. Not many people remember the date of their very […]
