The first message I received on Valentines Day went something like this: heidi,this is the first time I’ve looked at facebook in 5 months or so. i wanted to tell you that i love how much you live your life. few people ever live truly, and so most people might as well have not ever [...]
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Who You Meet, Who You Love, and Who Sticks Around
Your timing determines who you will meet in your life Your heart determines who you will love in your life Your behavior determines who will stay in your life Your timing determines who you will meet in your life I used to scorn the concept of timing. I was a romantic believing [...]
What Makes a Marriage Work?
Today is my parent’s 36th wedding anniversary. I asked them how it lasts (I certainly have no idea). According to them, it’s simple. It’s the threads you weave together over the course of time. People that know my parents find them the perfect blend of romantic, silly, and kind. To some they seem perfect-they wear [...]
New York State of Mind: Life Lessons over Manhattans
Gain Clarity in mad Manhattan? Why, it’s the best place in the world! Many people say that to in order to gain clarity that you need to escape to a place of exotic solitude. “Go to India to find yourself,” urged one friend. “No no, the beaches of Mediterranean,“ said another. “What about Bali?” offered [...]
Diving In and Letting Go
Years ago I spent at lot of time in Toronto working for a large retail client. During the project’s bone chilling winter, the project sponsor Anne and I became close. We spent many afternoons braving snowy sidewalks to explore café menus and deep conversations. Our retail planning chit-chat quickly evolved to theories on friendship and [...]
A Love Poem
“Write about love,” she asked. Three weeks before her wedding, one of my closest friends asked me to create a poem to follow the exchange of vows. The world stopped at her request. My limbs stretched and my arms grasped for adjectives to describe this mysterious force. However, no matter how hard I scraped the [...]
For Love or Money…Ride the ‘Coaster
A friend posted, ”If you are not either broke or a millionaire by the time you are 30, you are not trying hard enough.” I deftly commented, “I would argue that if you haven’t fallen in love or written a poem by the time you are 30 then you are trying too hard to be [...]
Hit on the Head by Love’s Boomerang
I do not need my calendar to remind me of St. Valentine’s Day. The window displays in every store downtown do it for me. Unlike many people that despise the overweight cupids and heart shaped candy boxes filled with subpar chocolates, I secretly enjoy the holiday spectacle. My eyes light up at the kitschy red [...]
Deepavali!
When we are young, naïve and hopeful we dream big. We throw our love out into the world, confident it will boomerang back and find us. Anything is possible whether it is being an astronaut or falling in love. I was shipped off to Space Camp, Orchestra Camp, and Girl Scout Camp encouraged to seize [...]