Joan Didion on fully embracing life: “I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just
"What do your words say you are?" That quote is from Jefferson Fisher, an attorney and author of The Next Conversation, which I am reading for my Book Club group. I highly recommend not just reading the book but also taking the time to incorporate the many lessons
A few months after I was discharged in May 2012 from my three-month stint (incarceration) in Hazelden rehab center for prescription narcotic addiction, a friend and surgical colleague from the University of Minnesota actually reached out and asked if we could have lunch! I italicized and used the word actually
After I wrote the last newsletter, The Phone Call, I had intended to move on to the next story about Sam and me. But a few nights ago, as I was walking Juno (a.k.a Mrs. Maddaus), I started to intentionally ponder the next story about Sam and me