by TheLoveofMyLife | Mar 12, 2015 | Love of My Life
Tuesday morning of this week I was on the Northwestern University shuttle between the Chicago campus and the Evanston campus. It was a pleasant morning by Chicago standards… a bit cloudy and misty, unlike the day before. When I arrived on Monday, it was sunny and...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Feb 14, 2015 | Love of My Life
It was early in 1989; Maureen and I had been dating for a few weeks. In my post at the beginning of last October, I had written about my “triple-positive” in the midst of Maureen’s recent diagnosis of her breast cancer turning “triple-negative.” As I said in that...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Jan 29, 2015 | I Have Been Provoked, Love of My Life
I ended Part One of “I Have Been Provoked” with these words, “we have to rethink the fight with cancer.” I never expected to be in the middle of this fight. Heck, I never expected to hear the words, “you have cancer.” Even worse, those words were not spoken to me....
by TheLoveofMyLife | Jan 24, 2015 | Love of My Life
In less than 12 hours, our son, Taylor, and I, will start our first half-marathon together. We are here in New Orleans. It is a special time. It is a special place, and my latest reflections on the love of my life have been over 26 years in the making. 26 years ago,...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Jan 7, 2015 | I Have Been Provoked, Love of My Life
I am frequently asked “what do you do?” That is always a hard question for me to answer, because what I do is a function of who I am. To understand what I do is to understand what makes me tick. What drives me. Who I love. What makes me put the gloves on. I put the...
by TheLoveofMyLife | Jan 7, 2015 | Love of My Life
For the past few months, I have written and blogged about the Love of My Life, Maureen. I’ve been rereading a few of those posts now, crying and laughing as I think about just how lucky I am to be the guy in these stories. I lived these moments with this amazing girl,...
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