Reality is Creeping In – Again…
For the last month we’ve lived in a pseudo-reality. We came home, but meals have been delivered every few days, plans were being laid for the celebration, friends and family were visiting. I will always consider ours a family of four, but now the reality of being three is...
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Lessons in Perspective – Ironman Style
Perspective is an amazing thing. Just over a week ago, I completed an Ironman (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run – 140.6 miles in 14h:23m:27s). When I signed up six months ago, I was sure this would be the hardest thing I’d ever do. April 29th...
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Emptiness….
It’s a feeling I expected, but I’m experiencing it in a way that I didn’t expect. I expected to miss her. To think of things I wanted to share with her and not be able to. To open her bedroom door and be surprised when she wasn’t there. I...
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Unveiling our Warts
Guilt is powerful.It is not always rational,but it can be ever present. When it is quiet and I think back to April 29th, there is guilt… Guilt that I was not able to save, or at the very least, protect my daughter. Guilt, that out of all of us...
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It’s Okay… To Have No Filter
Gifts can come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they even come in the most unlikely packages or places. My cousin’s daughter has one of those unlikely gifts. She has an inability to filter and therefore Rylie, and what happened, are in their family’s conversations all day long. While...
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