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    Love Is

    Love is speaking kindly to yourself when you put on a bathing suit. Love is giving yourself permission to sit and read, bake, or create when the to-do list is crushing your spirit. Love is reconnecting with a childhood friend who knew you when. Love is the laughter of littles as you read them a story. Love is seeing the person who needs help and helping. Love is the smell of blueberry pancakes on a Sunday morning. Love is the cat that rubs against your legs or sits beside you. Love is in the words, how was your day? Love is letting go of control. Love is gazing up at…

  • Health & Fitness,  Inspiration,  Parenting,  Travel & Accessibility,  Wheelchair Athletics

    Fifteen Years Later

    Fifteen Years Later. A letter to my younger self. There you are sleeping not knowing the phone is about to ring and change your life. You’re about to learn some important lessons. It’s going to hurt. Really hurt. You’re not going to know if the decisions you make are the right ones. I suppose that’s one of the scariest parts of being a parent. That’s why I’m here fifteen years later. I want to tell you that when you pick up the phone your life won’t be the same. One thing I know for sure. What’s about to happen will make you a better person. I’ll explain. You’re thirty-three years…

  • Inspiration,  Travel & Accessibility

    Precious Time

    The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore I was asked by someone very special if I could remember when my kids were little. My answer had a lot to do with why I still insist on family vacations even though my children live on their own. I answered that I remember moments. I remember the feeling of first holding my daughter in my arms and trying to wrap my head around the word mom. She studied me wide-eyed as if she was saying, so you’re the one I’ve been listening to all these months.  I remember when my son would give me kisses by planting his toothless…

  • Health & Fitness,  Inspiration,  Travel & Accessibility

    Thanksgiving Day Changed My Life

    I woke up in 2003 Before Thanksgiving Day 2003 I had been asleep, going through the rise and fall of daily life like waves on an ocean. I believed the key was to make my children’s lives better than my own and to create the fairy tale, the one with the white picket fence, big house, and happy family. Back then I had three major goals: Have a house that my children could call their childhood home, stress education so my kids would go to college, and educate myself and have a career so I wouldn’t be dependent on anyone. I finished my degree, we built the house and my…