I wrote my first end-of-year letter in 2010. Last year was the first time I didn’t write one. After Mom’s passing, i did not have the motivation to reflect on 2024. This year, I decided to pick up the pen again and continue the tradition.Losing Mom and several friends reminded me how precious time is.…
2023 brought so many good things. It felt that life was finally back to normal with covid a dark memory from the past. Travel, parties, concerts, sports events were all back like "before". It was another year that has created memories that will last a lifetime. Accept what is, let go what was However, it…
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman Slowly we party again Birthdays and Holidays Although we saw a spike in COVID after the holidays, we kicked of 2022 celebrating several belated birthdays: we had a great party at Domenico winery in January for Eilish and a fun…
Can You Imagine Happy Life Of Not Having Children? Not having children can be a quiet sadness that is always there in the background. Because it is so much bigger than becoming or being a mother. It hits in different phases of life. When your friends have children, or grandchildren, when their children graduate or…
For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it – Amanda Gorman. I flew back from Europe on New Year’s Eve, just in time to raise a glass of bubbly to toast to 2021. I was more than ready to leave 2020…
Accept what is, let go what was, believe in what will be. My very first letter said “2010, it was a good year”. 2020 on the contrary, was a bad year. However, all the bad also forced some good to come out of it. The BLM protests have finally started to create change, although still…