Stop living mindlessly, each day to the next. Instead, choose to live deliberately and with purpose.
After we lost Charlie to ALS and after going through everything that entailed, my ideas about life – what it means, what I want… – all that changed. I didn’t want to feel like life was this never-ending struggle of futility – striving to attain some manufactured sense of achievement.
Leave a CommentAfter Charlie died, and I was working on Finding My Reflection, I realized that, amongst the deep well of grief at his loss, was the…
Leave a CommentI woke up on May 26th to the news that a black man, named George Floyd, died in police custody while being held down by…
Leave a CommentIt’s a sincere question, truly. No censure or shaming here. I ask because…well…it’s a tough thing for me to do. I never gave myself the…
1 CommentOn the day we went to the E.R., he could only keep breathing by standing and bending over, rocking back and forth to manually keep his diaphragm working just enough to move oxygen into his lungs and keep his body going. Picture using your body to manually operate your lungs much like a blacksmith uses bellows to deliver oxygen to his fire. But we knew it wouldn’t be enough. He wouldn’t be able to sustain it for long.
1 Comment“…sometimes, it takes being covered in something new…to reveal what you always thought was ordinary…is actually something extraordinary after all.”
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