“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” —… Read More Being a Registered Nurse
I’ve always loved Halloween. For one, I was due to be born on Halloween. (I ended up being a week overdue). Second, I always loved dressing up as a kid for school costume day…back when it was still allowed! I always wanted to go trick or treating, but we lived in the country and the… Read More Halloween Memories
I never thought I’d get a tattoo…let alone 3 of them. It all started because my best friend Sheri and I wanted to get them together. We pondered for a good year, but never took the plunge. Little did I know; she would never actually get one after I decided to go ahead and do… Read More My Ink
High school was a crazy time. I really never did find my place or anything that I was good at, but I certainly didn’t give up. I ran track my freshman year, played volleyball my freshman and I think sophomore years, which conflicted with marching band, so I gave it up due to a very… Read More Random High School Memories
This is a hard memory to write about. I fought with my decision to write about it, but after all, if I’m writing about the most influential memories of my life, how can I ignore a major event such as this? It was life-changing to say the least. I want to write this one in… Read More The Divorce, 2013
I was an only child for the first six years of my life. From the stories that my parents told me, I was their miracle baby. After seven years of trying to have a baby, I came along in 1966. I remember wondering if I would ever have a brother or a sister. I knew… Read More I Got A Sister, 1972
Most of the time in life, we only talk about the good and happy memories. The painful ones, we’d rather stick in the back of the closet or the corner of the basement and never speak of them again. This is one that I have not talked about or mentioned in years; not that I have… Read More The House Fire, 1994
The day was September 23rd 2013. I knew a formal proposal day was coming, I just didn’t know when. We knew we were getting married, but we didn’t have the rings yet. Things moved so quickly, there was barely time to breathe, let alone worry about rings. We had planned to get married on October… Read More The Proposal, 2013
On May 3rd, 1995, my ex-husband and I had gone to test drive a truck at Liberty Chevrolet in Johnstown, OH. What we didn’t know was that the salesman had entered us into a drawing to win a one year lease on a Chrysler Lebaron convertible. A few days later, I got a phone call telling me… Read More I Won a New Car For a Year, 1995
If there’s one thing that I never expected to witness in my life, it would be an act of terror. I certainly didn’t expect to witness such an act after I crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. What a tangled, twisted, emotional day that was and for so many reasons. I was… Read More My First Boston Marathon…An Unexpected Ending, 2013
