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“Your life can change in an instant without warning. You brush your teeth for fifty years, then one morning, toothpaste makes you gag.” —- Sister Rain  

This little guy was my only purpose when I got out of the hospital six years ago, finding myself blind without warning. Driving, my career, my ability to do just about everything as I always did was gone. Three months into his adoption from a bird rescue, Piper needed a full-time…

Today is six years since I woke up blind. Today is one year since I flew to Germany, my return to air travel after five years. Today I celebrate the anniversary of my trip to Europe, not my fall into darkness. “It’s not always easy to see the glass half…

My intent on this site is to post original content but sometimes I am compelled to share something I’ve learned. Today is one of those days. Thyroid cancer has doubled since the 1970s according to a segment on Dr. Oz’s show; click here to read the full article. But since you’re…

I make my nana’s recipe for filling. She never wrote it down, of course, but I learned by watching and helping her from the time I was a little girl. The first step is setting bread out to get stale for a few days prior to the Big Day. We were…

As I arrived at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on an ugly, grey-skied day, I made myself focus on who I was there to remember, who I was there to honor. Our car had been experiencing difficulties the entire four hundred mile road trip and it had just failed to…

“When your life is turned upside down, somehow the rest of the world remains rooted and upright. You must fight to find a way to stand tall again. And then the real work begins as you learn to see that world with new eyes.” —- Sister Rain  

Piper, our rescue parrot, is the most independent being I have ever met. Since we adopted him six years ago, I have tried to get him to allow me to cup him in my hands and hold him to my chest as I was able to do with our first…

Congressman-Elect and former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw tells us what veterans still need. Instead of saying, “Thank you for your service”, he suggests we say “never forget.” “We will never forget the sacrifices made by veterans past and present, and never forget those we lost on 9/11.” The calendar shows it…

My husband and I were watching football at a bar in New York City yesterday and I thought how much fun our nephew who is 13 would have had. Obviously, the bouncer at the door would feel differently as would the state of New York but it was such a…