Book Review – Paint Your Hair Blue: A Celebration of Life with Hope for Tomorrow in the Face of Pediatric Cancer
Paint Your Hair Blue: A Celebration of Life with Hope for Tomorrow in the Face of Pediatric Cancer, a memoir by Sue Matthews with her sister Andrea Cohane, Morgan James Publishing, 2018. Fifteen years ago, Sue Matthews was living a perfectly happy life with her...
Book Review: If My Moon Was Your Sun (A Children’s Book About Dementia)
If My Moon Was Your Sun, written by Andreas Steinhofel, illustrations by Nele Palmtag, translation by Matthew O. Anderson and CD music by Georges Bizet and Sergei Prokofiev, by Plough Publishing, 2017, 75 pages. How do you explain dementia to a child? How can you...
Book Review: When Did Everybody Else Get So Old?
When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? Indignities, Compromises, and the Unexpected Grace of Midlife written by Jennifer Grant and published by Herald Press in 2017. Perhaps because I’m facing my 60th birthday, the opportunity to review this book drew an immediate...
The Act – And The Gift – of Mothering
Like many – perhaps you – I will not be celebrating the joy of motherhood with my Mom on Mother’s Day. Mom died of Alzheimer’s related complications in 2012. She had spent the last seven plus years in the Alzheimer’s care unit of a...About Me
I always try to see the upside of life, filtering everything through my positive attitude. Whether dealing with everyday life or elevating emerging leaders, we can learn from the past, must live fully in the present and be ready for an exciting future. Join me on the journey.
