I love the word grit. It’s got texture, depth, and pluck. And like most juicy words, it can be more than one thing.
Read more...My friend Cindy says May is the Month of Mayhem. She makes a good point, what with the end of school, graduations, birthdays and barbecues galore, and so many charity runs and events. It’s no wonder May flies by, and that so many of us find ourselves spinning and flitting from one thing to the next.
Like so many others, I find myself reflecting upon the 2016 presidential election—which saw a decisive win for Donald Trump and shocking loss for Hilary Clinton. Let me be totally transparent: I was rooting for Clinton.
Read more...You know how it is. A new year comes and with it, a surge of resolutions and goals.
We mean well. We do.
Perhaps for the first few weeks of January…
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Painful lessons often yield great blessings. At no time do we feel this more acutely than the holidays. In 2009, Toti Cadavid, born in Columbia and a longtime resident of Lone, Tree, CO, almost lost her life on Thanksgiving Day.
Read more...For weeks now the world has followed Brittany Maynard’s story of life and death. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of right-to-die, there is much to be learned from this young woman’s passion for living. By facing her own imminent mortality, Brittany Maynard gave herself and her family the gift of living.
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As silly as it sounds, there was a time in my life when my shadow became a kind of guardian angel, a surprising friend in what can sometimes be the loneliest of places: New York City.
Read more...Many readers know that my book Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Bold Living, was published earlier this year. Still…other readers of Vivid Living might only be learning this now because proud as I am of the accomplishment, I have not yet dedicated a single blog post to the book itself. Which begs the question why?
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