Wow! I should have guessed that when I shared my harrowing health experience several weeks ago (blog post here) there would be a lot of response. I was amazed both by the number of people who wrote in reaction but by the depth of their wisdom and honesty. I’ve captured, here, some of their insights....Read More
Who do I tell? I held my phone in my hand opened to the messages app with my fingers poised to begin typing and I froze for a moment. Who should I reach out to with the news that all was not well with me? Seriously not well. In my last newsletter and blog post,...Read More
I could not get my breath. I had climbed the stairway into the office complex countless times, but this was the first time I was winded by it. I tried to engage in small talk with the receptionist, but I. could. not. breathe. Strange. Also strange was my throbbing calf muscle, but I was able...Read More
The odds say that your overall vitality will begin to decline with every decade of your life and, at some point, fall off the edge of the table. For instance, strength, balance, and endurance can start to decline in the 50s and become more evident in the 60s and 70s. Muscle mass and strength naturally decrease...Read More
She held my hand for 10 seconds. Tops. But it had a significant impact on me. Last month I went in for a surgical procedure (one of many lately). I’m used to the drill. Get wheeled into the room, slide off the gurney onto the bed, anesthetic hooked up to the line in my hand,...Read More
She held my hand for 10 seconds. Tops. But it had a significant impact on me. Last month I went in for a surgical procedure (one of many lately). I’m used to the drill. Get wheeled into the room, slide off the gurney onto the bed, anesthetic hooked up to the line in my hand,...Read More
My good friend and mentor, Charlie Kelley, passed away last week. I wrote about him in my last post knowing it was only a matter of days until he would move to his eternal home. And now, I no longer have a classic mentor…one who is one generation ahead of me, one who has seen...Read More
A few weeks ago, I received an unusual phone call from my dear friend and mentor, Charlie. Would I be willing to take over the mentoring of a young man he had befriended the past eight years? It was an extraordinary request, as I had never met the man. Blind date mentoring? An arranged friendship?...Read More
My sister was going through some old pictures recently and found one I had apparently sent her years ago. She texted me the photo and I laughed when I saw it. It was me in 1976, on stage with a boy band…er…male quartet …I travelled the country with. The longer I looked at the pic...Read More
“Some of us wander from place to place, and many others of us don’t. We have the Somewhere people, who are very much of a place and rooted there, and we have the Anywhere people, who have a faint sense of belonging wherever they are and if they ever had a place, they left it...Read More
