by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before and after … I’d used the formal photo, here, since 2009, where I had a makeup and hair helper in the studio. And the photographer friend had to keep coaxing me to smile. That was when I was 51, thinking I had experienced a lot of life, but I...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Oct 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Clearing the clutter in your brain is like purging a closet or storeroom. Some things you preserve, others you pitch. Sometimes you swipe away a little dust, other times you’ve got to bring in the shop vac and empty it many times … And sneeze numerous times to...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
You risk everything when you take a chance … and when you DON’T. I’ve ridden some wacky waves this year — wait, haven’t we all?!?! — not realizing that a perfect storm had been aligning itself … waiting on ME to step atop a new surfboard to...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
As I read my mom’s journals, I came to September 11, 2017, the day she designated as her own “9-11” … after a diagnosis of lung cancer. Then I remembered hearing that from other people facing a variety of difficult challenges on that specific day of...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Sep 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I was a kid, I stood at the fence at the back of my yard and envied the golfers who drove their carts across the endless acres of manicured green. Living near the 16th tee of a country club course gave me lots of uncluttered acreage for me to image myself running...
by Monica Vest Wheeler | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
I fall in love so easily. And when you love so many people, you laugh more, you cry more, you experience life more. And I’ve decided that’s what IT is all about. I used to be a homebody until stroke and brain injury camps taught me to live on the road. And...
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