Anyone that is keeping track, I did write a post with a similar title 12 years ago: Whooooshhhhhhh! which contains a similar sentiment to this year. Busy summer, lots of life in motion, lots going on and lots of great memories! It was also one of those summers where I was processing an intense couple […]
Category Archives: Living Life Fully
I am not a big fan of what is going on right now in the country of my birth or of what is being done to the institutions and communities I love or of all the chaos and destruction that is being done to the things I hold dear. I frankly don’t understand how this […]
Hello from NOLA! My last day of the 2024-5 school year was last Tuesday and Terry and I are kicking off my summer break–and Terry being done with prostate cancer treatment–with a quick visit to New Orleans. Terry and I lived here from 2009-2014, but we have only been back once, for a quick Jazz […]
Father’s Day 2025 Happy Father’s Day to all the guys out there who play the role of father figure in someone’s world. Here is a quickly updated Father’s Day post for that wonderful guy that I call Dad. What a couple of years! While my mom has always tended to knock caregiving out of the […]
Wow! What a year since last Mother’s Day! My mom has had a tough couple of years on the medical front, keeping us all on our toes. As I said last year, Mom was raised not to air her trials and tribulations–nor for her daughters to go TOO public about private matters–but suffice it to […]
My Grandpa Cooper’s 1st cousin Evie turned 100 on January 5th of this year in England. Evie and I first corresponded while I was an undergraduate 35 years ago, when I was doing family research on the Coopers in England to add context as I was reading my great-grandparents WWI love letters. I then reached out again […]
I’m re-listening to James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” for at least the 6th time and one of his reminders is to “just do something”—some action—to get you started in a progressive direction and then you can build on that momentum, those small habits, and before you know it, you’ve made some major progress in changing the […]
I’ve been following the historian and writer, Heather Cox Richardson, for a couple of years now and have been blown away by all that I have learned from her and the community that has grown around non-traditional writers, bloggers, podcasters, and new media creators like her this past decade. She and others like Jay Kuo, […]
It’s coming up on 13 years ago, December 2011, that I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Terry and I were two plus years into our New Orleans adventure and I finally had a recommendation for a rock star primary care physician who I randomly made an intro appointment to see in October 2011. One thing […]
During the summer of 2023, I found out that my bone density had reached the point of full blown osteoporosis and that a number of areas on my body, in particular in my spine, had become very concerning. We have been monitoring my bone density since I got back from New Orleans in 2014 and […]
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