It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since I last wrote here. Time flies when you’re feeling good, and I’m feeling great! I didn’t think I could ever feel “young” again. I not only feel younger than a did four weeks ago, I feel better than I ever have in a…
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I’m settling into life with my new food choices. As time goes on, what I eat has become less and less a part of my waking thoughts, and more just something I do at certain times of day. I have not allowed myself to “cheat” because it is in those…
View More Along the Path of HealingI have to admit that I love the irreverent phrase “sh*! happens” because too often in life there is just no explanation for the obstacles we face. The first time I heard the expression I laughed, a bit uncomfortably no doubt. I don’t even remember the context. Like all comedy…
View More What to Think When Bad Things HappenMy psyche, or perhaps more accurately my spirit is bereft and cluttered with the shattered glass and twisted metal that now lies far behind us in a desolate junk yard… small bits embedded in my skin a constant reminder. The sun now spreads glorious warmth across my shoulders as I…
View More Though I May Never Know Your NameIt’s hard to fathom that it has been nine years since that fateful September morning in 2001. My experience of those moments had a profound and lasting impact on me as it has on so many others. It has not been easy to make sense of it all and I…
View More Remembering My City of RuinsOperation Iraqi Freedom 4,384 Casualties and counting Operation Enduring Freedom 1,097 Casualties and counting The Gulf War 1,963 Casualties Vietnam War 58,261 Casualties Revolutionary War 25,700 Casualties Korean War 36,574 Casualties World War I 116,516 Casualties World War II 405,399 Casualties The complete list of names This does not include…
View More Remembering those who Sacrificed their Lives for Us