BRAVE BEGINNINGS
Starting over. Showing up. Taking the next step.
15 stories
Clear filters ×Family · rideTride
And I will walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more. —The Proclaimers I started counting my steps last July after my darling T’s horrific bike accident. A careless driver caused a chain reaction of quick stops that left my beloved…
4 min read Read A bad break. A long streak.coronapandemic · covid19
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.— Maya Angelou Miles and Mommy “at work.” Enforced stay-at-home because of the corona virus is not how I imagined it would…
5 min read Read Home in the time of COVID.career · Courage
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of…we know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”—Blaise Pascal As I walked Miles one cold Sunday afternoon recently at our favorite park, I was pondering my career and…
4 min read Read The Heart Knowscareer · Courage
“Coda: a concluding segment of a piece of music, a dance, or a statement. It’s usually short and adds a final embellishment beyond a natural ending point.”—Vocabulary.com Here I am, on the precipice once again. Corporate job—over. Writing life—ready to resume. I’ve…
4 min read Read CodaBaltimore · brothers
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. —ee cummings On Saturday, April 14, I will stand on the stage at the 15th Annual Baltimore CityLit Festival with my Listen…
2 min read Read Unconditionally Mom, part à deuxMusicOfMyLife · Baltimore
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.—Berthold Auerbach, poet and author I can chart the course of my life through song from the earliest days when my parents’ hi-fi played Oklahoma, The King and I, My Fair Lady…
6 min read Read The Soundtrack of My LifeLoveWins · LTYMBaltimore2015
“I raised my sons to be extraordinary, to see possibilities, not roadblocks.”—Vicky D’Agostino, LTYM 2015 On a snowy February day I made a pivotal decision in my journey to becoming a bona fide storyteller. While stirring my grande pike’s at Starbucks, I…
3 min read Read Unconditionally Mom–LTYMEqualityWins · LoveWins
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Edwards I am humbled by the beautiful words of Justice Anthony Edwards in his written opinion for marriage…
2 min read Read #LoveWinsBaltimore · body image
“If diets worked, we’d all be thin already.”—Sandra Aamodt, neuroscientist and science writer Several years ago my friend Janelle and I were having another late night work conversation, long after we should have gone home but for the crushing workload. We were…
5 min read Read The Zipper to the Fat Suit
