Living Your Life

It’s Never Too Late

June 21st, 2012
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It is never too late to acknowledge someone’s loss.

Whether it is weeks or months after the loss has occurred, those who are closest to the deceased will always want to hear how that person made a difference in the lives of other people.  It may feel awkward, but it’s helpful to those mourning if you can relate a positive memory, a favorite expression or any helpful advice the person once gave to you.
There are times when you hear about someone’ s loss many months after it happened and you don’t know what to do.  Should I call?  Should … Read More

Uber Fun

June 14th, 2012
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Courtesy of Uber Earlier this week, I was surprised with the opportunity of using an Uber car to get from a business meeting back to my office.  It was so pleasant and so efficient compared to my usual crazy experience in a Washington, DC taxicab or using the Metro.  I wish Uber could be my permanent way of getting around town! Sometimes part of the healing experience can be when someone does something out-of-the-blue unexpected and nice for you and you just sit back and enjoy it.  Besides, Resilient Readers, you are the best and I have to share with… Read More

Re-Shuffle Please

June 8th, 2012
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Alex Katz Painting The amazing thing about grieving is that it blows all the unimportant stuff right out of the water. When it happened to me, the contradictory feelings of grief immediately rearranged my priorities and what I once thought was important wasn’t anymore.  New stuff appeared at the top of my priorities list after my loss.  Things I thought were important suddenly didn’t matter, and other things I didn’t seem to have time for before, I now made time to do. Life dramatically changed, life tragically changed and everything mixed together and changed its order.  Life re-shuffled.  I now… Read More

The Anti-Cancer Zone

June 6th, 2012
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To my family members and friends who are waging the battle of their lives!  You cancer warriors will understand this list of things that cancer cannot do sooooooo much better than we who always support you yet we are not cancer patients.  I say thanks to www.thesilverpen.com for putting together this list of positive affirmations!! While your battle with cancer may sometimes be lonely, we love you very much and want to help you in your courageous fight to go into remission:… Read More

Earth Angels

June 5th, 2012
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Many years ago, one of my aunts generously gave me a book about people’s first-hand experiences with angels called Angel Letters by Sophy Burnham. Burnham previously had written the bestseller, A Book of Angels, which was so popular that hundreds of people wrote to Burnham about their encounters with angels.  Burnham took these letters and with the permission of the writers, published their letters and used people’s real names. “Since finishing A Book of Angels I have come to a personal belief:  that we live surrounded by ghosts, by spirits, not only in our imagination, as metaphors of our past,… Read More

Angels & Faith

June 4th, 2012
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Faith is usually defined as having a confident belief in the truth of a person, idea or thing.  Faith is also defined as having a secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God’s will. Hmmmm….trusting acceptance.  For me that is always the part of faith that I am constantly working on.  I have been thinking a lot about faith these days and it’s role in my life.  I don’t know what the future will bring, but of course  I always hope and pray that it’s going to be something good. And if it’s not something good, then I… Read More

A June Morning

June 1st, 2012
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Memories Look At Me By Tomas Transtromer A June morning, too soon to wake, too late to fall asleep again. I must go out — the greenery is dense with memories, they follow me with their gaze. They can’t be seen, they merge completely into the background, true chameleons. They are so close that I can hear them breathe though the birdsong is deafening.… Read More

Keegan — The Opposite of Loneliness

May 31st, 2012
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Marina Keegan Marina Keegan had something to say and she said it extremely well as a writer for the Yale Daily News. Before graduating from Yale this month, Marina wrote the below column to her classmates, reflecting on her positive college experience, her sense of life’s possibilities and the nervousness of going out into the real world and following her dream of being a writer. As the mother of a recent college graduate, I recognize what she was feeling when she wrote this beautiful column and have heard some of the same thoughts from my son.  Tragically, Keegan’s prescient words… Read More

Finding Joy

May 30th, 2012
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Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.… Read More