I just returned from a “girl’s weekend” at the beach. A long weekend with some of my favorite women, lying in the sun, playing in the water, long walks on the beach, and talking. Lots of talking. It’s not the same weekend every year, as we work to accommodate every one’s busy schedules, and it’s not [...]
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Ready to Risk Again
In December, I wrote about feeling hormonally challenged. After posting that particular blog, I did go have a chat with my Doctor and had some blood work done. The results came back “barely pre-menopausal” to quote my Doctor. What the heck? I stumbled through January, and hit rock bottom in February. February was spent in a [...]
Appreciation
Last week we had the occasion to attend a funeral for a fallen Peace Officer. I have never seen anything so heart wrenching, yet so impressive and so inspiring in my life. Our son is a Peace Officer in the county where we live. Tragically, he lost one of his “Brothers” last week. They were [...]
Holidays and Hormones
I love the Holiday Season. Starting with Thanksgiving, all the cooking and baking, gathering round a table with too much good food, connecting and re-connecting with family and friends. Jumping into Christmas, the decorating, the shopping, the wrapping, the giving and receiving, again with the cooking and baking. Then New Year’s, saying good-bye to the past [...]
Risking Letting Go
We all have a few of them. Relationships which have become unhealthy or not satisfying for us. But, for some reason, we just cannot quite let them go. Maybe it’s a friend or even a family member. Maybe it’s a business relationship. Sometimes, these are long term relationships which were once vital and important to us. Sometimes, it’s a [...]
Risking Being Here In This Community
First I want to apologize to all of you for missing my post last month. In September a room became available in the assisted living community we had picked out for our Mom, and my sisters and I had to make the decision to move Mom and then to actually accomplish said move in a very [...]
Taking On A Risk For A Loved One
Whenever we take a risk, we take along those we love and care about. Our risks involve some degree of risk for them also. Sometimes, we have to take on a “risk” for a loved one, and we go along for the ride. I’m sure there are many of you walking in my shoes. I’ve heard [...]
Inspiration from an E-mail?
I must apologize to all of you. I wrote the following post, and thought I had set it correctly to post on the 12th of July. Apparently, I did something incorrectly and it didn’t post. I left shortly after writing this and just got back into town after twelve wonderful days in Colorado, visiting my Mom, [...]
Recognizing and Celebrating Past Risks
Before I started reading the Risk A Day Blogs, I never really thought about the choices and decisions I was making within the concept of “risk”. I guess if I thought at all about those choices and decisions, I thought of them as getting something done, a means to get from point A to point B, but as a risk? Risk never [...]
