“If I don't own my own life, who else will?”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Ask yourself this question:
If my life is the same five years from now as it is today, would I be OK with that?
If the answer is no--or especially if the answer is hell no--then now is the time to do something about it.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Someone mentioned that the Johnny Cash songs I was practicing were appropriate for Dennis. I guess that's lucky--because those are the only Johnny Cash songs I know.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“I wish I'd made time to check in with the kids more. To start a conversation. To let them know that it was OK to be sad, and OK to be worried.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Every child deserves a chance to thrive--even if their parent has died.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“I knew in my gut that the first time attending the Seattle Brain Cancer Walk would be in Dennis's memory--rather than in his honor.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“It seems to me that if it were not for resistance to degrading conditions, the tendency of our whole civilization would be downward; after a while we would reach the point where there would be no resistance, and slavery would come”
“A po-lice gimme a reference. He tell me I better get my ass gainfully employ...”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Precipitous decisions by companies pertaining to employees, devoid of documented established ground of denial of any of the demands or rights sought by the employees, or as adumbrated in law, would be construed in all probability unpalatable by the labor department and Judiciary.”
“It’s too humiliating.”
Source: The One