When we found out over a year ago that our dog Zoey had a brain tumor, one of my friends referred to her illness and the time we were given to care for her as a unique blessing. I did not really get the connection at the time, but it stuck with me and I […]
Category Archives: Living Life Fully
I can’t believe it’s already Peace Corps Week. In honor of the “toughest job I’ll ever love” these next 3 posts are dedicated to my 2 years of service, teaching language arts and other teachers on the West Indian island of Antigua. We were called EC58 and there were around 60 of us in our […]
I finally saw the movie ‘Gravity’ recently with Sandra Bollack and George Clooney. It’s been in our DVR que since October, but obviously other things took precedence. I was fascinated that a movie with what seemed like a limited scope and tiny cast could have so much action and found that it lingered in my […]
Two years ago, I was inspired by a number of other bloggers to start the New Year with a three word mantra rather than traditional resolutions. I have actually continued to set resolutions and goals, but have found the idea of a mantra to be compelling and doable. My 2013 words were agility, openness and […]
While I’ve been quite frustrated with the whole cancer thing since we have been back in Chicago, there have been plenty of positive things going on that have more than balanced out the negativity. One of the things that made my heart sing was being back in the Midwest for the Fall after 5 years. […]
Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, I didn’t realize how much time cancer truly sucks out of a person’s life. Moving back to Chicago hasn’t gone quite the way I had planned and it’s because of cancer, not just mine, but my sister’s and our dog Zoey’s. I didn’t plan on my […]
I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test at different points in my life, the version where my place of employment paid a company serious money to administer the test and coach us on our results. I took it in my early twenties while I was a resident advisor at Northern Michigan University and then again […]
Back in February, when we found out our dog Zoey had a brain tumor, I asked one of her vets how long she had to live. Mind you, I was trying to be big and brave while talking to Zoey’s vets and not break down in tears, but when I asked this question, the tears […]
…Chicago! News! News! News! When we moved to New Orleans in 2009, we planned to stay 3-5 years–unless something compelling changed our minds. Nothing did. We enjoyed much of our NOLA experience, but neither of us ever fully acclimated to the Big Easy, we arrived in the midst of a wave of other Northern Carpetbaggers/Outsiders […]
I can’t believe another Mardi Gras season has come and gone!!! This one was fantabulous!!! I’m a late comer to Mardi Gras and I had never attended a Mardi Gras parade prior to moving to NOLA. I celebrated Antigua’s Carnival and j’ouvert morning as a Peace Corps Volunteer, but that 10-day festival celebrates England’s emancipation […]
