Seven years ago, we lost a part of our heart. My stepson left for a weekend with his friends and never came home. The wave of his hand and his 'Goodbye' are etched in my mind forever.
You Had Me At GoodBye.
10 Life Lessons from an Ordinary Working Mom Living in the Midwest
So this week, I turn 39. When I was younger, I believed anyone over the age of 30 was old. As a teenager, I hoped to accomplish so much by the time I finished my 20s. Now that I'm nearly 40, I keep trying to tell myself that I'm only as old as I feel and... Continue Reading →
Rah! Rah! Go… The College Experience from the Commercials Isn’t Always the Real Thing.
Every now and then, I am disheartened to see people who graduated with me in college still loyal and enthusiastic about our Alma Mater. When I look back on my college experience, I came away with great memories of finding my way after one tumultuous freshmen year of basically being a wallflower, working behind the... Continue Reading →
Has it really been 20 years already? Once a Catholic School Girl, Always a Catholic School Girl!
Most of my memories as a student at Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school, still remain crystal clear even 20 years later, especially my senior year. To this day, I can still remember the smell of the hallways, the feel of my school uniform, rushing to advisement in the mornings because we always had to... Continue Reading →
Two Truths & A Lie
As defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Truth is the real facts about something; the things that are true; the quality or state of being true; and a statement or idea that is true or accepted as true A lie is to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive and/or to create a false or misleading impression.... Continue Reading →
We Are Not Our Masks
After recently becoming obsessed with Arrow, a show on the CW for those who don't know, and pretty much binge watching all three seasons in the matter of a little over a week, there was something said by one of the characters in the first episode of the third season that has continued to resonate with me.... Continue Reading →
The Compromise of Marriage
Since the moment I said "I do" eight years ago, my life has changed more in the fact that some of the scenery is different but not so much the life that we started together. Some of the friends we had then are no longer in our lives, new jobs, my stepson is gone and a... Continue Reading →
Six Years Gone, But Maybe It’s Six Years Lived Too
Six years… 72 months… 313 weeks… 2191 days… 52,594 hours… 3,153,600 minutes… That’s how long Timothy’s been gone. It’s hard to believe really because it feels like just yesterday when it all happened – the accident, the hospital, the preparations, the wake, the funeral and then the moving on with our lives. Not a day... Continue Reading →
How to Save A Life
It's been almost six years since we lost my stepson in a four-wheeling accident. And after recently watching Grey's Anatomy and watching the fictional Meredith Grey have to sign the papers to disconnect her husband, "McDreamy," from the machines keeping him alive and standing by his bedside as he took his last breathe, my life was... Continue Reading →
7 Life Lessons I would tell the 23-year-old me now 15 years later
Since I am quickly approaching my 38th birthday in a little less than two months, I have to stop and think about what I would tell the 23-year-old me if I had the chance to stand in front of that wide-eyed young woman who was ready to take on the world of journalism, fall in love... Continue Reading →
Does this Roller Coaster ever stop? 