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Whether the death of a child was due to illness, accident, suicide or drug overdose, the pain is the same — an ache in your heart that won’t go away. Will your life ever be the same? Perhaps not, but as the interviews in this book reveal, you can go on to have a meaningful life. Trish Armor [previous chapter] dealt with her loss through a number of powerful methods. She started a local branch of a bereavement group called Compassionate Friends for other parents who had lost a child. She turned to her faith, a gift she said her daughter had given her, and most significantly for her, Trish turned to Mindfulness. According to Mindful.org, Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present—aware of where we are and what we’re doing at the moment. Such an awareness, says Trish, can be hugely beneficial. “We tend to live in the past when losing a child and have a lot of negative thoughts,” she remarked. Forgiveness is another very important element in the process of co

  Excerpt from Exercising in a Pandemic Isolation             COVID-19, with all the pandemic’s accompanying closures and self-isolation, required a change of lifestyle, especially for those who were used to being active and following an exercise regimen. For several months, people were not able to go to the gym, the golf course or the tennis court. You couldn’t go for a walk in the park or on the beach to stay active, because parks and beaches were closed as well. With the stay-at-home order in place, even socializing was curtailed, and socializing goes hand-in-hand with staying active and exercising. Businesses and restaurants were closed. Shopping malls, where many people would go to enjoy their walks, were closed.             Innovative ways to stay active were born almost overnight, because exercise is the known core to staying healthy, both physically and mentally. Did you notice people out walking that you had never seen before in the neighborhood, and yards newly landscaped and

  Excerpt from Forget the Goal, the Journey Counts I did believe, however, that there was a good market for human hair wigs, and a few weeks later I told Borghese that I would start my own distributorship. I knew a young man who wanted to be in his own business and thought he would be a reliable partner. A large man of six foot two, “Big Mike” was tired of working in his father’s auto parts store and wanted to strike out on his own. He had an attractive little wife and a new baby boy. Mike and I each put in $7,000 and agreed that I was to sell the product outside the D.C. area while he ran the office and sold in D.C. and surrounding suburbs; his wife would keep the books. We ordered the wigs, rented a small storefront on Wisconsin Avenue, and when the first shipment arrived from Italy, we were in business! I loaded up the car and took off throughout Maryland and eastern PA, visiting beauty shops. In the second month, I contracted with a small but exclusive department store s