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!
I was raised by wolves who were raised by the two most amazing women I’ve ever known. My grandmothers were so different. One could cock and fire a riffle using one arm (but couldn’t aim worth shit!). The other threw the most amazing parties.
On the rare occasion when both grandmas were together to celebrate the holidays, one would ask, “How many drinks has she had?” And the other would ask, “Can you pour my martinis into a water glass? I think your other grandma is counting!”
I loved the soirées. Watching the guests interact in the most grown-up ways. My grandmother was always the queen, wearing something new from Beverly Hills and stockings purchased from Robinsons so she could get free parking.
I remember walking down the long hallway, looking at the map with pins in every destination. Today, my pins join hers, and the map lives above my brother’s kitchen table. My grandmother’s pins are gold. And mine are silver.
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 empty words: “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. Maybe that’s why I left. Because “home” only holds memories reminding me of the emptiness.
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.
