My daughter messaged this morning to show me the plants she had gotten over the weekend for her garden. I was immediately flooded with the warm emotions associated with legacy moments. Traditionally, every year the week before Mother’s Day I would spend weeding and preparing the gardens for new plants. Then the day before Mother’s…
It’s been fascinating the last couple of years, remembering how to do things that at this stage of life we just do. The second brain surgery had a couple of consequences that I wasn’t anticipating. Mostly, I expected it to be very much like the first one even though it was described very differently. The…
Many years ago I took the Dale Carnegie class – How to Win Friends and Influence People. One of the many wonderful things I learned was – consider the worst case scenario. Once you figure out what that is decide if you can live with it. If you can you are all set to move…
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…
Last week I shared about the Cherry Blossom run – a beautiful 10 mile run in Washington DC at the peak of the Cherry Blossom bloom. Thousands of people run this race. It’s impeccably organized and has all the amenities of a big race. Annapolis has a sister race that they lovingly call the Cherry…
I’m the middle child of a large family. There are eight of us – three boys and five girls. Growing up in a big family had its positives and negatives. With that many kids inevitably there was always someone to play with. On the flip side, inevitably there was likely someone you were at odds…