About 6 months ago, I received a text from a dear friend.  The content explained that my friend had just found that they were sick, and that they wanted me to know.  I remember thinking, this can’t be real…and this can’t be that serious.  It turns out, it was real, and it was that serious.  About six months later, my friend was gone.  At least in the way that I knew them.   And now, I Read more

So..I turn 50 this week.  I have literally been looking forward to that number since…well, I turned 40.  An “age” hasn’t really ever carried the stigma for me that it may for others, I am more interested in the number.  I had always said I wanted to live to 100.  So if I’m lucky enough to do that, I’m halfway there.  The last 10 years of my life have been the most challenging, most liberating, Read more

This is the story of a walking man.  This man was known to me first as that…a walking man.  You see, he’d walk past my house daily, on the other side of the street.  From where I stood I saw a man with a slight smile, and a smooth gait.  I would think to myself, there he is again…the walking man. Well, one sunny Denver day, the walking man looked over and saw me in Read more

When I was told that my father had stage four pancreatic cancer in September, I didn’t now what to think.  The immediate reaction was somewhat akin to a dizzy spell.  I couldn’t quite hear the words.  I’m sure that many have had a similarly powerful reaction to such news.  For me, the news caused a journey of inward auditing that I was caught very off guard by the feelings of the next two months. My Read more