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My Blog’s Evolution
Read More: My Blog’s EvolutionRetrace. Oh, it has been much too long. The last time I wrote was when our new pup, Lonnie, entered our world. It seems as if I had abandoned this blog considering my last post was in August of 2018. Since my previous post, the world has changed, and there’s no need for me to…
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A dog named Lonnie
Read More: A dog named LonnieA couple of months ago, I found an injured bird in our backyard. After calling around to a few shelters, we were referred to the Burbank Animal Shelter. While waiting for the officer to come and rescue the bird, I started looking up dogs at the shelter where I adopted Butters. Fast-forward to a few…
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Walking with Wolves
Read More: Walking with WolvesTo celebrate Jay’s birthday, we walked with wolves. I really didn’t know what to expect when I signed us up. I thought the event would entail a simple walk with wolves at the Wolf Connection, a wolf sanctuary. But instead, we learned about the special pack; their life stories, their dispositions and more importantly, what…
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It’s never too late
Read More: It’s never too lateI’ve had an awakening. And I can finally articulate why I stopped swing dancing. At first, I thought it was because I didn’t have the time or that I was no longer obsessed. But I realized, that there was so much more to understand. In 2013, when my Dad passed away, it was the last…
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Umma & Me
Read More: Umma & MeI took a short trip to Northern California to visit my Mom the week or two before Thanksgiving. Before the trip, I co-facilitated a two-day leadership workshop at work. One of the ways we help leaders set aside their distractions for the two-day workshop is to talk about what’s most pressing for them in the…
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Run with it
Read More: Run with itMy head spins a little less now. And when I wake up in the morning, I have a better sense of where I am. I don’t feel like I’m in-between anymore. I can stop and reflect back on our cross-country trip and think about all of the things that went right (and wrong). We didn’t have…
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Goodbye, New York… again
Read More: Goodbye, New York… againRight now, I feel like I can’t move forward without reflecting on my experience of living in New York. It’s as if I need to let the past two years catch up with the present. For the first several months of this year, my life was moving with a speed that I could not keep…
