The world is still spinning! Still? Are you? Who am I to tell you what to do! Do you see the light at the end of that tunnel? I did! Do you think you matter? You are matter! The meaning of all of it? Is to find your purpose!         :)Astrid

Twenty- two years ago, on Tuesday May 7th, I suffered a massive brain bleed.  My two daughters, Audrey and Amy, who were born on May 2nd and May 20th, were just 1 and 3 years old at the time. Mothers’ Day was on May 12th that year and my brain surgery took place the following day.  I came home on Audrey’s birthday with 76 stitches in my head. I had bargained that I would live long enough to see them stand on their own two feet and have a college degree. Last Thursday, on the 23rd birthday of my youngest, I […]

Tracy from Downtown It was a blizzard. Nearly six inches were already on the ground and they predicted a foot more. It was freezing cold. The wind was howling. It made the snow feel like hard frozen rain instead. I would have canceled our plans to go out for dinner, but my husband and I had agreed to celebrate my fiftieth birthday by going to one of our favorite local restaurants. Driving home, our car suddenly swerved to the left, throwing me against the window as my husband exclaimed, “Oh my god, did you see that?” I looked over my […]

A Musing on the Immigration Debate The debate around immigrants is heated, and brings out the best and the worst in people. The concept that we want to bring them to our land, whichever that land may be, is noble, and our duty, we think. As an immigrant, who came to this country of my own free will, I want to make sure we all remember that these refugees are displaced people, in the truest sense of the word. They come from horror, and have been through trauma. They are broken people, and before we bring them to any country, […]