May 21, 2015 A long marriage requires two people to fall in love, over and over, with each other. Every day, Tim and I make the same choice we made 32 years ago: each other. And we made another amazing choice: to become parents. How lucky are we? Incredibly. (Thanks for the first 32 years, …
Each day it seems that someone I know is facing a new challenge – a cancer diagnosis, a medical emergency, a death in the family. I know what all of those feel like and one thing I know that each of us learns – when life is good, you have to breathe it in and …
It’s been a tough few weeks. In the middle of November, a student at my school was struck and killed by a car. He was 4. There are no words to express the tragedy of the loss of a four-year old child. Last Thursday, as I was driving to go Christmas shopping, I suddenly became …
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference …
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” Martin Luther King I have been pondering the next step. One thing that is looming up ahead is my first summer without commitments. I am fortunate to have been able to spend every summer for the last 22 years enjoying time with my children. …
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. – Larry Leissner 1. Why so many people just don’t think. Or if they do, why they don’t think like me… 2. Why politicians think that they can dictate our lives – who we love, how we build our families and how …
“You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.” Ethel Barrymore I do not have a university degree. This has been, at …
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change” Buddha This has been a wonderful week. Many moments have reminded me why I do what I do. Life is good. To the world, it may seem like a little thing, but on Tuesday, I helped a student learn …
I appreciate that I began this blog as a photography blog, but somehow, life is getting in the way. For more than a week, it’s been a nasty cold, but the thing that really is messing me up these days is something that people don’t really talk about too much, though I am baffled as …
