Moss doesn’t grow under my feet… and not just because I’m on the move now. I have never stood still long. My grade school teachers wrote in my report cards: She could be a really good student if she could sit still and focus long enough.
Today, that’s called ADHD. Back then, it was trouble!
That’s OK with me because words do not define me. I’m defined by what I do. I live my life my way, but with the highest dose of integrity—and that I learned in line at a Starbucks in 2003.
Your integrity is the only thing in this world that no one can take away from you… Only you can destroy that. Or build it. The choice is yours.
I’m not here to change the world, but I so hope that those around me find pause to smile, laugh, and do something outrageous!
Let’s not celebrate our 90th birthdays to realize we’ve lived the same day every day of our lives.
I was raised by wolves who were raised by my two favorite people: Grandma R and Grandma G. My grandmothers were so different.
On the rare occasion we were all together for the holidays, one of them would ask: How many drinks has she had? And the other would ask: Can you pour my martinis into a water glass? Your other grandma is counting my drinks!
I loved them just the same.
But it was my Grandma R that taught me how to soak up all that life has to offer. She was beautiful, full of life. She could throw the best parties. Her stories captivated a young me. I would walk up and down the long hallway in her Pacific Palisades home, looking at pictures from around the world, stopping only to count the number of pins pushed into the map showing everywhere she had traveled.
Today, my pins share space with hers on the same map that hangs above the dining table at my brother’s house.
There is nothing more in life than the love from a dog.
On April 25, 2025, my handsome little man, Sir Theodore Kingsley, was diagnosed with lymphoma. Five weeks later, he was gone. I don’t have words fit to describe the gaping hole inside my soul. And I find no comfort in any of it — he lived an amazing life.
Don’t fill space with words where silence is deserved.
I am so lost without Theo. I don’t know how to move through the world. And it will be a while before I can let another dog into my life. Maybe that’s why I left. Because here, there are no memories around every corner reminding me of the emptiness.