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Life (and Love) After Stroke: Mike's Story

  • Can You Feel It?

    “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou *** Today is officially one month of wedded bliss. A lot of friends have asked if it feels different being married. It does, actually. Because although we were committed to… Read more

  • The Fragility of Existing

    “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.” – Joan Didion *** In my job as a court reporter, I usually see people on their worst day. A bad custody case. A messy divorce. A family dispute over money. A person being sentenced to prison because they made the bad decision to… Read more

  • My Vow, My Love

    I’ve had many people reach out to me (both in person and by text) to tell me that they were very moved by our wedding ceremony. I wanted our ceremony to be an intimate display of emotion, faith and love. I will admit that writing my vows took a while. There were so many important… Read more

  • The Big Question

    I love the Easter season. It brings with it such a wonderful feeling of hope. As the days get longer and also a bit warmer, we slowly forget the brutality of the winter and hold onto the promise of renewal that spring brings. With each passing day, the sun’s rays deliver a more positive energy… Read more

  • Lightning In A Bottle

    Per Google, lightning in a bottle is an expression describing the rare, near-impossible feat of capturing a fleeting powerful or magical moment. *** One of my first memories from childhood is seeing fireflies in the backyard. My family lived on Louise Drive in Latham, New York and I was about 6 years old. It was… Read more

  • 30 More Sleeps… and a BIG Mini Jesus

    In 30 days, I will marry the love of my life. We are in the process of writing our own vows and as much as I love writing, I will admit I’m having a tough time putting my feelings to words. Some things are hard to express, plain and simple. Over the last six months,… Read more

  • Lights, Camera, Botox

    I think it’s safe to say that most of us (here in NY at least) are currently suffering from a phenomenon known as cabin fever. That phrase first appeared in 1918. Historians suggest that it described the madness of early settlers in North America who were trapped for long winters inside their log cabins. ***… Read more

  • Inspired Insanity

    Mike and I traveled to Nevada together about six months after we started dating. We actually planned the trip within the first month that we were together. I remember thinking even though we barely knew each other, it felt right planning that far ahead. I had no trepidations about it, no fear that we wouldn’t… Read more

  • Moment-um

    “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy From the day we are born to the day we die, it’s the moments in between that make up life. But what is a moment, really? Perhaps, the best comparison would be saying it’s like taking that screenshot of something we need to… Read more

  • Christmas Spirit (with a side of grace)

    It’s been a very busy couple of months for me. I will finally close on my house next week. It’s been an exhausting and frustrating process, to say the least. But it feels very fitting to close out the year and, thus, that chapter of my life by closing on my house. For the last… Read more