Much to my surprise, I have the purr-fect nurse. You may have heard of her before - our cat Baby. As I started my breast cancer journey, Baby seamlessly slid out of her housecat persona into being the purr-fect nurse. Baby has always had what Shya and...
I’ve been writing this blog in my head for several days now. The title and first sentence changes but the outcome is always the same. I’ve entitled this: I wanted the outcome to be different I can still taste him on my lips It...
I hadn’t been feeling well for some time. I was exhausted, sleep did not recharge my batteries and work had become almost impossible. Then, in June, I was diagnosed with Waldenström macroglobulinemia, a rare type of blood cancer, named after the Swedish scientist Jan Gösta...
Have you ever noticed how the attitude with which you approach life influences your experience of your day and can impact the way others around you go about theirs? I once had a sweet reminder of this that had me quietly smiling to myself as...
Although I have been a professional actress for 25 years and an acting teacher for 15 years, things radically changed after I contracted Covid in November of 2020. Ever since having the virus, I have had multiple lingering symptoms most of which, thankfully, are better...
I have always thought of myself as a healthy person. When I was 19 and in college, I studied philosophy and yoga because I believed that both a healthy mind and body were important. I am now 68 and I have continued to pursue keeping...
Below is a sweet email we received from our friend Stephanie and the story from How to Have a Match Made in Heaven she references. We find it inspiring that she keeps discovering things newly. Enjoy! Ariel and Shya Dear Ariel and Shya, I took this picture last Summer...
It’s hard to believe that it has been more than three years since I got the call from my wife Holly who was on the West Coast visiting her mother. She telephoned from the emergency room to let me know that she had gone blind...
I wonder if this is how my mother felt. Of course, Baby is not a child, but when I hear Shya interact with her, I smile. My mom always seemed inordinately pleased that I was “daddy’s girl.” When he’d come home from work, she would encourage...
When the barometer falls, some people’s knees act up or their arthritis flares. But for the two of us, we have a sweet and contented cat that suddenly goes crazy. For no apparent reason Baby will suddenly start yowling. She’ll scurry from place to place...