Usually I don’t plan out or edit my blogs. This time what I want to write about requires some explanation so I’ve had to think this through. I don’t share this preface to make anyone feel sorry for me or to martyr myself. But, rather, to demonstrate how incredible actions of incredible cousins gave meContinue reading “You see me, you really see me!”
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Missing You
Sometimes I talk to my Mom; my old Mom; my fierce and fabulous, social justice warrior Mom. She listens to me talk all about work and the clients I’ve interacted with. She gives me tips and tricks of how to deal with difficult people. She asks about my colleagues; if Sara is liking her newContinue reading “Missing You”
Friends are friends forever…?
You know that moment when you’re in a crowded public space and you catch a glimpse of an old friend you haven’t seen in awhile across the room? She doesn’t see you, so you quickly wind your way through the crowd to where she is until you are face-to-face. She bursts into a smile and you practicallyContinue reading “Friends are friends forever…?”
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
It has been my great privilege to have had some pretty remarkable women in my world growing up. One, I now share a particularly strong bond with. As you all know by now, my mother has dementia. As I resemble her baby sister, her brain has been able to convince her that I am, indeed,Continue reading “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t”
Attitude of Gratitude
Today I smelled the first of my phlox as they began their emergence into our garden…to me, they smell better than roses. I felt the warm sun on skin and the breeze in my hair. I listened to the cacophony of birds that have made our yard home. Instead of being critical of my lackContinue reading “Attitude of Gratitude”
Dandelion Wishes 