Jul 16Love’s Legacy Lingers On — In Lake GenevaDedicated to the Memory of Julian Merlino During the pandemic, I was burned out at work, and my twins were stir crazy from lack of stimulation. We hadn’t been outside our home in months except to take our daily walk with the dog or an occasional bike ride. To give…5 min read5 min read
Apr 26, 2021Member-onlyThe COVID Pandemic Forever Changed Me -I went from being an extrovert to an introvert — I used to love people. I loved spending time with them in large groups, small groups, one on one, you name it. I welcomed anyone to my office, my home, my orbit, my world. And today? After a year of solitude, I want nothing to do with them. …Pandemic Reflections3 min readPandemic Reflections3 min read
Nov 5, 2020Member-onlyEven When You’ve Lost Touch With Old Friends Who’ve DiedTheir memory continues to be a legacy of love — I haven’t kept up with my college friends. Although I adored them at the time, they represented a painful epoch in my life. Sometimes I’d google their names just to see where they were and how they were doing. But like viewing old photographs in an album, I’d soon turn…Pride6 min readPride6 min read
Jul 28, 2020Member-onlyThere’s A Sorrow No One Talks AboutThere’s A Sorrow No One Talks About When you lose an ex-lover and find out after the fact I don’t know what made me Google his name. I hadn’t thought of him in years but had never quite forgotten him either. No one had told me he died 6 months…Grief2 min readGrief2 min read
Feb 19, 2020Grief Comes In Many FormsGrief Comes In Many Forms We Don’t only Grieve for those who’ve departed — we grieve the selves we haven’t become Andrea Cosnowsky In Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken”, most people quote the end of the poem, in which the poet speaks of taking the road less traveled and…Grief3 min readGrief3 min read