Yesterday was fairly warm and sunny. Today I woke up to about 8 inches of snow. In a way the reluctance of spring to arrive reminds me of my current state of transition. Transitions are not easy. For a time you exist in a state of void – who are you, who are you going to be? You aren’t what you used to be and yet you aren’t something new yet. It...

For me quality of life is much more important than quantity. It is the same for my Dad. I wonder what makes some people want quantity regardless of quality? It sort of made me think of that case in Florida a few years ago. If anyone is reading this – what would you choose? Quality? Quantity?

It has been a while since I have written. That’s because I got punched in the face in the figurative sense last month. My father has been feeling bad for quite some time. His doctor ran some additional blood work and thought that he had Leukemia so she ordered a bone marrow biopsy. I flew out for that and it was extremely painful for him – it took them...

We are reading this book for our book club at the office. It was written in 1938. I was thinking it was not going to be very good or very relevant to today. Amazingly it was not. Much of what Madame Wu struggles with is very relevant today. She’s looking for purpose. She is weighted down by her responsibilities in the household of more than 60 people. She longs...

Home. How do you define it? Most of the time I think of home I am thinking of the house that I live in with my family in Colorado. But I just finished reading a book set in the mountains of Kentucky and it really made me think of home. My home in the context of my ROOTS. Who I am. Where I came from. The descriptions of the sounds of water flowing in the creek, the...