From Teacher to Student

From Teacher to Student

I had a full-circle moment last month. To understand, I need to provide you with a bit of my history. When I graduated from college, my plan was to become a schoolteacher and write during the summers. But I needed a break before continuing my education. So, I took a...
Don’t Get In Your Own Way

Don’t Get In Your Own Way

A few months ago, my dear friend, Kathleen McDonough, invited me to join her in Cozumel. She had a day of pilates-related business in nearby Cancun (she’s an unparalleled physical therapist and nationally certified pilates instructor). So, she figured it made sense to...
Honoring the Truth

Honoring the Truth

Earlier this summer, I had to write an obituary for one of my oldest and closest friends. The task was made even tougher because of our falling out during her final years of life. Sadly, her decision more than a decade ago to crawl into a bottle rather than wrestle...
Mom

Mom

Tomorrow would have been my mom’s 97th birthday. While it’s unlikely that she would have lived that long, her death more than 20 years ago hasn’t gotten any easier to accept. I discovered just how true that is when I opened an old spiral notebook a...