When Ed, my soulmate of 30 years, developed Alzheimer's, I sank deeper into despair each day. Death is typically a clear starting point for grief, but with dementia, loss comes in bits and pieces.
One has to wonder if nine-year-old Neil Armstrong, who once spent his days walking around St. Mary's, Ohio, ever imagined that he would eventually be the first to walk on the moon.
That was a time when it felt like I would write a song on Monday, it was cut on Wednesday and by Friday it was on the radio. I liked those days very much. Very much indeed. Nothing stays the same.
Around the world, the sinking of the Titanic has morphed into a profitable industry and the disastrous ship is as popular a topic as Jesus and the Civil War.
Without a daycare program where women can leave their hot flashes and discomfort, the best step companies can take is to educate their employees and employers.
It comforts me to know that my mother will live on in us, and hopefully, in the generations to follow.
These new Ivy rejects are far from slackers. They're incredible kids with impressive resumes -- 2,350+ SATs, straight As in their 16 APs, debate champions, flute soloists and MVPs.
For me, having two young daughters has not only expanded my access to joy and deepened my sense of gratitude, but it has heightened my concern for the dangerously subversive messages they've already started to receive.
No one walks a straight line on the journey to wellness. Most studies of lapses in fitness, nutrition and recovery programs show that you can get back on track more easily if you have scripted the way you will recover.
However we choose to live our lives in our 50s, whether through true grit, humor or acceptance, it seems to me that it is a personal lifestyle choice.
I want to offer you a concept shift, a whole new way of thinking about feedback that has allowed feedback to serve me, instead of scare me.
Take a look in your drawers. According to my mother, who is a spitfire 81 years old, you can tell a lot about a person by how things line up in their drawers and by the organization of their linen closet.
Even though I'm not normally one for saccharine self-affirmations and cheesy platitudes, I want to use the comments section of this post to flip the script and ask you all to say something positive about yourselves.
Was Marcus Welby better able to treat the entire patient than Dr. House? It is time for America to create an oral history of the medical profession. These gray-haired physicians may illuminate how we might meld the best of the past and the promise of the future of medicine.
I fell in love with cycling. To me it is wonderful experience to ride long distances and commune with nature (I can't believe I just said that but it is how I feel).
Ken Solin, 2012. 3.04
Ellen Sarver Dolgen, 2012. 3.04