I am on fire these days, working to grow this blog, become involved in other projects and bring my purpose to life. I am educating myself, researching ideas and flexing muscles that have been atrophied for the last five years. As I was going over my To Do List this…
Month: May 2017
Battering A Thousand (Calories)
The one instruction always missing on a brownie mix box is how much of the batter goes in the pan and how much goes in your belly.
Your Next Opportunity May Be Right Around The Corner
While walking around the neighborhood this morning, I stopped under a tree so that the shade would allow me to see my iPhone screen well enough to,change to another audio clip. Less than a minute later, back to my workout, a man coming towards me on the sidewalk stopped next…
A Nice Idea For Mother’s Day If You’ve Lost Your Mom
Mother’s Day without a mother is not just another day. Even if you are a mother yourself, when you have lost your own there is an important piece missing from this designated Sunday in May. Once a daughter, always a daughter. The greeting card industry escalates an already difficult holiday…
Flip-Flops In A Blizzard
Thinking about the fact that I need to return a pair of shoes I recently bought, the expression “Walk a mile in her shoes” came to mind. We are taught or learn, hopefully, not to judge someone if we haven’t been in their exact same position. With genuine desire and…
Franklin, My Dear
Growing up thirty miles from Philadelphia, with everyone in my family born and raised there, spending time downtown shopping with my mom, sightseeing, visiting my nana, the City of Brotherly Love is not only woven throughout my childhood memories and my own adult traditions, it is part of my DNA….
It’s All On The Wrist
It took a few days but Piper has returned to one of his favorite perching spots after the addition of a Fitbit to both of our lives. I never know what is going to spook my feisty little man. I have worn a brace on this left wrist for recurring…
That Old Familiar Flush
For a decade, my husband and I would travel with a group of friends to Las Vegas every other year. We enjoyed gambling but also did a lot of sightseeing and took day trips to places like the Hoover Dam and the Bunny Ranch. Just checking to see if you’re paying…
May 7th (AKA My Birthday)
May 7, 2011: Took an early flight home from Atlanta where I had been for a week, managing a pharmaceutical company meeting. May 7, 2012: Stood in a hospital corridor outside my mom’s room, with an oncologist I had just met and would never see again, who answered the question, “What kind…
Home Is Where The Sports Bra Is
You know you had better slow down when you’re so ridiculously focused on getting through your To Do List that you leave your house to walk your neighborhood without putting on a bra. Dear Neighborhood Watch: I hope you weren’t, you know, watching. Sister Rain