On May 23, 2009, a year after the death of my son, six months after the death of my mother, and five months after the death of my father, on the eve of the closing on my parent’s condo, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. Following eight rounds of chemo and seventeen radiation treatments, on December […]
Friendship
Grief: The Gift, The Challenge, The Process
THE GIFT In the last few years, several of my friends and I experienced significant losses. The anguish involved in loss is rarely welcomed, and often seen as the price one pays for having loved greatly. I, however, tend to look upon grief as a gift. Think of the alternative. Without great love, there would […]
Life Intervenes
This post, a continuation of my August 1 post, is about how life intervened on my and Debra Winegarten’s plans to “sing, dance, and catch up in person.” I looked forward to seeing Deb at the Story Circle Network conference and celebrating her achievements. June had been a great month for her. She spent a […]
An Inspiring Story of a Transformed Heart and Mind
The most important lesson I have learned in the fifty years I have spent working toward the building of a better world is that the true work of social transformation starts within. It begins inside your own heart and mind, because the battleground of human transformation is really, more than any other thing, the struggle […]
A Dazzling Dayton Dame
A “Dame” is a woman of refinement. While Carol Pohly and I celebrated my birthday last summer at First Watch at the Dayton Mall, we noticed a little boutique across the street called Simply Hyacinth. We decided to check it out and found some treasures we just couldn’t resist. I had no idea of the […]
Gifts from the Universe
Recently, I received three wonderful gifts from the Universe. About three weeks ago, while rearranging the books in my home, I found a book written by a former client. I hadn’t thought about Lucy (not her real name) for several years. Fingering through her book, a flood of memories surfaced. At the time I knew her, […]
