The lease is up on my house. The lease is up on my car. The “so to speak” lease is up on my son. My fourth and final child leaves for college in 20 days. I guess these words are true: If you dream about something...
Who would have thought a slipper box could be so ominous. But there it sat for a year after my mother’s death, unexpected, at 72. I couldn’t let it go, but I couldn’t open it. 18 inches wide, slanted top, 5 inches tall at the...
I am not exactly certain how the time has whizzed by since my last blog entry in April. Let’s just say it has been a busy (and productive) spring and those empty calendar pages that I often refer to have been fuller than I thought....
Don’t we all remember that day? I actually even remember what I was wearing: a very cool red blazer with 5 inch lapels. I know exactly where I was standing when the lady took my picture with an old fashioned camera and handed over my...
At this very minute I mean these words literally. I am currently on a flight half way around the world traveling back home to Cincinnati from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I have had an incredible week visiting my 21 year old daughter who is studying abroad...
I got sick this week. I mean really sick with fever and chills and an unbearable headache. I tried to rally and get to meetings, appointments, soccer fields and carpool line on time. I pride myself on never getting sick. I have no idea why...
I think at 52 years old it is finally time to grow up. For so many years I have been “somebody’s something.” Once upon a time I was a television news anchor on the NBC affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, I jumped off the career...
My friends all laugh at me, and my kids think I am crazy, but in my never ending search for some answers I have gone so far this year to reach out to psychics, astrologists, and even someone who calls herself “The Angel Lady.” I...
Over the past few months many people (more than I even knew) have reached out to me asking what happened to my blog, The Stuff of Life. Somehow I fell off the blog path this year because as my personal journey became harder and harder,...
Let me just say I am happy to turn the page, buy a brand new 2013 calendar and even stare happily at what seems like blank pages ahead. It was one hell of a year…2012! I watched my mother die at the age of 74,...