Book Thoughts: A short history of nearly everything
I realize I haven’t been posting here too regularly, and I don’t really have a good reason why I haven’t other than, well I haven’t. Anyway, I felt compelled to write about a book I just finished (3 years after my mom raved about it and bought me a copy to read) by the excellent […]
Simply Amazing
I remembered today sort of randomly Steve Jobs 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, and how much I used to love reading it. My mom also loved reading it, and she actually had a print out that she read from the last few months of her life. She loved that speech. I did, and still do. […]
My mom
Wow after crying my eyes out and writing a long reflective post about my mom, and the one year anniversary of her passing…my firefox (foxfire as she called it) froze thus erasing everything I wrote. So I’m afraid to say I have no energy at this point to write the post again. I can’t believe […]
good quotes
I normally ignore the junk that is displayed above my email messages in gmail, but today this quote caught my attention and I thought I’d post it:
One year later
We recently just passed the 1 year anniversary of one of the harder moments of my life. A year ago this past weekend while driving up to spend the weekend at Lake Erie with Julie and her parents I received the most difficult phone call of my life.
All is Well
I forgot I had this pic, but I absolutely love it. A day or two after my mom passed away, my sister found this poster hidden in her (my sister’s) room. We’re not really sure when my mom made it, but it was really an amazing and comforting thing to find. It was almost as […]
Elephant in the room
How often do you have some issue that needs to be addressed, yet everyone involved in it pretends to not be thinking of it, even though everyone is thinking of it but no one wants to talk about it….ugh it’s exhausting. But why is that issue, whatever it may be, so difficult to discuss? Why […]
words of encouragement from the past…
I spent this past weekend in Cincy at my mom (and tom)’s home. I love going there because I really do feel closer to her, as I’m surrounded by some of her things, and many memories of time spent there with her. This weekend I stumbled upon a baby book on my bookshelf, where she […]
birthday
So yesterday was my birthday (june 16th), and I have to say it was not really a day I wanted to face. I feared it because I knew it would be hard, sad, and frustrating…It was. I couldn’t and can’t help but feel cheated and frustrated to come through this 25th birthday without my mother […]
Congruence
I’m realizing more and more the importance and value of one (of many, many) lesson my mom taught me: congruence. Congruence is when all of your wishes and beliefs come together with all your actions. Alignment, as she often referred to it as, is really one of the more difficult things for people to find […]