Legacy Moments

Spoke at an empowered women leaders conference today. Was amazing!

I am still experiencing issues related to the earlier brain surgeries. Nothing that seems all that problematic to me but things that needed to be addressed. Incredibly we are coming up on four years since the original brain tumor was identified. That tumor was treated through two surgeries. We are not done with that one…

As the child that made me a mother celebrates her birthday, it’s given me pause to reflect. So many birthday celebrations over the years. I was never big on parties, particularly the present requirement. We had our standard group we would hang out with, so it was always the same folks at all the birthday…

Growing up we never had a housekeeper, with eight of us there was always a chore list of who was responsible for what. As a single mom, I found it more of a necessity than a luxury. Over the years I’ve had some amazing housekeepers, some with interesting quirks. When we lived in Southern Maryland,…

In general, I don’t remember my dreams, but when I do it’s typically because I have woken into them and start acting them out. My earliest memories of these took place at the shack. I’m also told there was a sleepwalking incident where I made my way out to the end of the dock, stood…

Our house was always filled with music (still is). But when my girls were growing up any situation could make us break out in song. For instance, on foggy mornings, we would sing America’s “Ain’t it foggy outside …. “ Vacuuming was almost always done to the soundtrack from Beaches. When one of the girls…

I have been a diehard country music fan as long as I can remember. The song “I was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” (Barbara Mandrel) could easily be my theme song. When my girls were much younger, we had a local radio station that you could call in a pair of songs during the lunch…

A few days back I was chatting with some girlfriends and the subject of having things explode came up. The front runner for greatest disaster was forgetting to pierce potatoes and having them explode, this was the front runner until I shared my story. My girls were still fairly young, maybe five and seven, when…

Technology today has made it easy to maintain a sense of socialness. Early on during the pandemic, one of my golf buddies sent a note to all of us asking if anyone had a zoom account that we could all get together for happy hour on Friday. Having such an account the wheels were put…

Since I was a child, I had a tendency to contemplate the questions that simply could not be answered. Or muse on tremendously philosophical concepts. One that I had given much thought to was that for us to unite as a planet we would need a common enemy. In my mind that common enemy would…