by Susan | Jun 22, 2021 | Awareness
Tests – the last few months have been full of them. My mom signed a contract on her house and will close in a little over a week. Along with that May was a month full of travel, some unexpected, and I no more than returned from Hawaii and I was in the final stages of...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2021 | Grief, Relationships
After a year we finally completed the celebration of life for my dad. It was a daunting task and I’d be lying if I said it went off without a hitch. I spent most of the week before going through old pictures to put in a video. Fortunately, he had scanned the old...
by Susan | Jun 8, 2021 | Awareness
It finally feels like summer. I’m back from my island vacation, feeling renewed, to a whirlwind of activity. I’m planning a celebration of life for my dad who died last year during the pandemic and my mother is moving out of the house that she’s lived in for 50 years....
by Susan | Jun 1, 2021 | Awareness, Travel
It’s a little after three in the morning and the rooster just started crowing. There is a cacophony of sounds here. As it gets dark the coqui frogs start to serenade us. Then early in the morning, the rooster starts up and a little later he is joined by more birds...
by Susan | May 25, 2021 | Awareness, Caregiving
As I sit in the garden and listen to the birds singing, I am content. Nature has a way of repairing the wounds we receive if we’ll let it. I am a survivor. I’ve survived breast cancer. I’ve survived caregiving and the loss of my husband at an early age. Being...
