September 2021 – Red Chair Reflections

Memories of the week when everything changed

September 10, 2021Leave a Comment

A birthday gift from November 2001, picture taken at the World Trade Center memorial in NYC days after 9/11. 20 years ago today, I was attending a conference held on the Genentech campus in South San Francisco, California. We were split up into working teams and I was sitting next to a woman I'd just…

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Hi. I love my husband, my family, my country, all dogs (but especially ours), cooking, wine, travel and am a bit of a news junkie.

I have opinions, reflections, and passions about what I’ve learned from the different roles I’ve had in my life as a daughter, a sister, a career woman, a friend, a wife, an aunt, and a stepmother that I plan to share here. I’m also at the age where I’m starting to ponder life’s next chapters, and the inevitable changes that come with age.

Regardless our politics, our relationship status on Facebook, or whatever we might be dealing with personally at the moment, I believe we’re all in this together, and we’re just trying to figure out how to embrace the inevitably rocky journey of life with optimism and hope.

Whether you read a post here and say to yourself “Thank God, I thought it was just me,” or “Good Lord, she’s lost her mind,” I hope you’ll tell me so. Thank you!