It seems like just yesterday that I was a 20-year-old acting student hanging out in Greenwich Village, drinking black coffee, and going to midnight showings of foreign films that I pretended to like and understand because the guy I loved liked them. Back then, I wouldn’t have dreamt of telling someone I loved, or in fact, even someone I hated, what I really thought about … [Read more...]
The Life Lesson That Helped Me Meet My Husband
As hard as it is for me to believe, this March my husband and I will celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. We’ve been together for more than 26 years, and to be honest, it’s hard for me to remember a day when he wasn’t in my life. I know it sounds super corny to admit this, but meeting Joe was the best thing that ever happened to me. Being with a person who … [Read more...]
True Love Ways
It seems as if it was just yesterday that I was anxiously awaiting Valentine’s Day because I had a strong feeling that my boyfriend was going to propose. That was 24 years ago. Now that boyfriend is my husband of almost 23 years and the father of my three children. I was thinking of how far we had come from that young couple who was planning our life together, when I … [Read more...]
The Best Lesson I Ever Learned
In 13 months I’ll hit the half-century mark. This means that for the next year, I won’t be 49, I’ll be almost 50. Even writing the word 50 to describe myself seems a bit surreal. How is it possible that I’m this old? Wasn’t I just a twenty-something wondering what I was going to do with my life and when would I meet the “one.” I’ve been thinking a lot about that young … [Read more...]
