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I was working on another project this morning at my kitchen table with the window open. It’s a typical Santa Ana fall weekend in San Diego where it feels like the threat of fires. When you’ve lived here through both the Cedar and the Witch Creek fires, your sensors are up for that kind of stuff in the fall. Both of those fires came within a mile of my home. Luckily, we survived with minor damage and big messes from both. Comparitively speaking, over 400 homes in my community were lost last year. It was a devastating time.
As you may have heard on the news, fires are raging in Santa Barbara and north of Los Angeles. I’ve been consciously trying not to turn on the TV or Radio this morning to protect myself from the negative energy of the news. This is often my process when I’m writing or working as I’m more productive. However, I did pop onto to Twitter for a quick five minutes.
Within one minute, I knew that fire was threatening somewhere close the Santa Clarita valley (or so I thought). I quickly thought of three twitter friends I had met in Ventura a few weeks ago: @respres, @jesseluna and @lindaptaylor. I sent them a tweet to come to San Diego if they felt at risk. They responded within seconds that they were fine but another twitter freind @QueenofSpain was in more danger. I don’t know @QueenofSpain but because she’s in their twitter tribe, she’s now in mine. That’s how it works. Their friends are my friends and so on. Below is our twitter streams. Start from the bottom and read up.
So, cross your fingers for @queenofspain and everyone else in the fire areas.
I wrote this post quickly to show you the enormous power of twitter. It’s so incredibly useful in times like this and can give you news faster than any other source available to us. Just think what it could do for your personal brand or your business. Pretty incredible possibilities huh?
Understand why I’m still having an affair with Twitter??
- QueenofSpain: @ResPres yeah, um…..not liking the direction this puppy is moving
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amarquart: @Karoli so winds 2 not helping keep contained? worried 4 u & @queenofspain… no relief insight (weather)?about 1 hour ago · Reply · View Tweet
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meresgreen: @QueenofSpain can you get out?
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QueenofSpain: @tsalagi1 we’re ok. We’re not in any immediate danger. Fire is a good distance. Worse for my son to be in this smoke.
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QueenofSpain: I-5 between 405 and the 126 is now shut. SO yeah, that’s us. Don’t come visit
about 1 hour ago · Reply · View Tweet
Since last week’s election, you have inevitably saw some of the statistics covering how President Obama maximized social media tools to connect with his constituents. During his campaign, he reached out to connect with people using the internet through Facebook, Linked In, My Space, Twitter, and other social media tools. He even paused to email a thank you note to his team before his acceptance speech. Undeniably, he had many competitive advantages over John McCain, but one cannot debate that social media played a huge part in his election.
President Obama’s ability to reach out and connect with Voters, specifically Generation Y is due to the fact that he embraced their language: texting and communicating with social media tools. Compare this to John McCain, clearly a novice, and it’s easy to see how a younger generation might feel they have only one clear choice for President. They just can’t relate to someone who can’t communicate with the tools of today. It’s a text book example of the generation gap.
So you say, interesting enough but how does this impact me, the working mother?
Think about it for a minute. If Barrack Obama can use Social Media to have a landslide competitive advantage over his competition, then why can’t you? If you’re an entrepreneur or you’ve been thinking about starting a venture, what can you learn from this recent presidential election? What can you implement for your own business? What can you plagiarize from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign? If our President used Linked In, Facebook, My Space, Twitter, why wouldn’t you? After all, he did spend millions on his campaign, likely the largest budget for market research this year. Why wouldn’t you maximize the research that he’s already done and copy that for your own business?
Clearly, I am a Social Media evangelist. I believe that Social Media is the path for working mothers to flexible work. In fact, I believe that it’s the path for not only working mothers but for anyone looking to lead a more independent lifestyle. Think about it. For the first time in history, the playing field has been equalized by the internet. We’ve all got the power to step up to the plate and hit a home run. Why shouldn’t it be you?
So, go see what your new President did to get elected and copy, copy, copy. Working moms, the man just showed you exactly how to do it. All we have to do is watch, listen and implement for our own businesses. How lucky are we to be living in these times?
Got examples of things you’ve already done? Love to hear from you so that other moms can learn! Leave a comment and if you like this post. Please stumble it!
Here are a few other interesting articles covering our new President’s Social Media success and predictions about how he might continue to use it moving forward:
Mashable: How Will President Obama Use His Massive Social Media Influence?
Search Marketing Gurus: Barack Obama: The First Social Media President?
Advertising Age: Obama’s Rivals Should Steal From His Social Playbook
Read Write Web: Obama’s Social Media Advantage
It’s been so interesting to me lately to watch the faces of people when they ask me what I do and I answer that I’m a blogger. Of course, my answer includes a few other things too (executive coach, speaker, web 2.0 evangelist and a writer) but the blogger part always stops people in their tracks. If someone isn’t intimate with the blog community, their face gets distorted, they get a somewhat condescending smile and start asking questions. “You do what now?”
I’m not offended. I’m actually quite flattered. You see, I perceive bloggers as cutting edge and I’m happy to consider myself as part of a new and upcoming industry. However, uninformed people don’t take me serious as a blogger. They think I’m playing. It’s so entertaining to me how people react to things they don’t understand.
You see, blogging is just another form of media like TV, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, Outdoor Advertising. You can make money with blogging similarly to how Dr. Phil or Oprah make money with TV. It’s all about personal branding and having a consistent, authentic message. Not only is it another form of media, it’s the newest form and it’s GROWING…while other mediums are decreasing.
A career in blogging is a huge, personal commitment. I spend at least 20 hours per week on my blog/internet presence. That includes writing, marketing, programming, search engine optimization, strategy, research, benchmarking, making friends in the blogosphere, monetization, researching, helping friends in the blogosphere and much more. And get this, 20 hours doesn’t seem like nearly enough. (This doesn’t even include my torrid relationship with Twitter. Remember that from my previous posts? And, by the way, if you aren’t already, follow me @aaswartz on Twitter)
So, why am I sharing this and why is important to you? A couple of reasons:
- I want you to open your minds to the outside-of-the-box career options that you might not have considered yet as a working mother. Perhaps there is something right there that could make a huge difference in your happy factor.
- The Tipping Point for the Web 2.0 world is getting closer every day. Given the current economic situation and where the stock market is, might you want to consider investments in Web 2.0 space when you are thinking about reinvesting your money??? I will be. If you are skeptic about the Web 2.0 Tipping point. Check out my recent comment at Harvard Business Publications.
- The Social Media community is fresh and inspiring. They have a lot to teach us. Go meet them and see what you can learn. The industry is fast paced, upbeat, positive and so inspirational. Why wouldn’t you?
Yesterday, it was my great pleasure to attend Social Media Simplified in Ventura, Ca with some of the brightest and most successful people in the industry. Make sure to stop back later this week when I’ll be talking more about what I learned from Mari Smith (The Pied Piper of Facebook), Deb Michek(Twitter Evangelist Coach Deb), Denise Wakeman (The Blog Squad), Linda P Taylor (”Insider Secrets”), Nancy Marmelejo (Viva Visability) and Simon Leung (Google SEO expert).
Hint Hint: If you can’t wait to read my post and you’re feeling twitventurous, go to http://www.search.twitter.comand search on #smsv and you’ll see all the tweets related to this wonderful event. Pretty sweet huh? And you wonder why I’m having an affair with Twitter?
Last week Six Figure Moms Club sponsored a fabulous event in Orange county, The Next Generation in Work Flexibility. It was my intention yesterday to write a post about this terrific event and the fabulous women I encountered there. However, due to the Law of Attraction, that post has been detained a bit longer.
As some of you may remember, I have been salivating over tickets to Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference since it went on sale and then subsequently sold out in less than three hours earlier this summer. I even wrote a post about it hoping Maria Shriver herself might read the post and provide a few lucky Six Figure Moms Club members with tickets. Nothing happened.
Last week, my head hung low as I was conceding to the fact that I just wasn’t going to this fabulous event when one of my co-sponsors at the flexible work event offered up an option. I could volunteer on Monday and work the conference as a way to attend. Had I known about this earlier, I would have jumped on the opportunity, but I had commitments Monday that I couldn’t move. Regretfully, I couldn’t make this work.
On Monday morning, my phone started ringing and texts started pouring into my cell phone. By the end of the day, I had access to seven tickets to the conference. Crazy huh? Thank you Universe.
I’m writing this post in haste as I pack my things to run out the door to the conference. I likely won’t have a chance to write any other blog posts until the weekend but I wanted to let you all know how powerful we are. It’s always worth pursuing every little thing you want because the world really is here to help you! If this isn’t proof enough for you, I’m not sure what is!
If everything works out, I’ll be attending the Women’s Conference as a member of the media today. I hope to be standing next to Bono of U2 sometime in the next 24 hours. Universe, did you hear that one?
Of course, my love affair with Twitter continues and if I have a chance, I’ll be tweeting under hash code #miverva as will the other tweeps that attend. If you’re interested, go to www.search.twitter.com and search for “minerva”. There is also a live webcast of this event at the Women’s Conference webcast and I believe at Oprah.com. Sorry, you’ll have to search for the link…because I’ve gotta drive to Long Beach
This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, joining thousands of other bloggers to write about one topic for a single day. This year’s topic is poverty.
I grew up in Southern Ohio in a county with one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. Incidentally, also close to another county where the number of drug trafficking arrests were also high (no pun intended). Families who lived on welfare were abundant.
I remember houses that still didn’t have inside toilets and days when families would gather to get government subsidized foods like cheese. Five pound blocks of cheese were handed out from the back of 18 wheeler trucks to long lines of people who drove a long way. Sometimes this subsidized food was the only protein in a family’s diet.
The summer of my sophomore year in college I worked as a mentor for the Job Training Partnership Act-Youth Training Program. The government funded program served to provide jobs for kids 14-21 from low income families and to provide job training. As mentors, we taught resume writing, job search, professionalism, interviewing skills, self image, self esteem, and general life skills. The kids were placed at job sites all around the county and did jobs ranging from working as a court assistant to painting bridges.
The main thing I learned from this summer was that I could make a difference in these kids’ lives just by showing them that they could break the welfare cycle in their families. You see, many of them thought that their mission in life was to collect welfare checks. That was all they knew. Their parents had been living this cycle for generations so they were waiting to turn 18 and earn their place in the welfare ranks. I was so saddened and moved by this fact that I worked harder to connect with them and show them that I was not so different.
Although my family wasn’t on welfare, we certainly weren’t wealthy and I was putting my self through school at Ohio University. I had some help from my parents, a few scholarships but I worked two, sometimes three jobs to make it all work. I wanted these kids to know that they had to strive for something better and that they had the power to change. How is this related to Poverty you ask? Were they starving? Some of them were, Yes. But the bigger picture is that they weren’t contributing everything they could back to the society. They were settling…and they didn’t even know it! What if each one of these kids had a mentor that helped them be their personal best? What could THEY do to solve poverty? The five of us mentors did what we could over the summer to lead by example and to influence our teams to step up to their lives. We had a lot of fun with them and tried to be leaders. They made us better too and taught us a lot about leadership as well.
This summer job changed me forever and had a tremendous effect on my views of welfare and handouts. To this day, I don’t donate money to causes that have no built in efforts to improve the process and I never give money to people on the streets. This isn’t because I’m unsympathetic, it’s because I believe in systems to make things better and process improvement and making a bigger difference than just 50 cents in someone’s hand. I certainly don’t mean to suggest that I have the answers. I haven’t studied the welfare system in detail. I am an armchair opinionator at best, but I do know that there is no incentive to change anything. What if we used all that money to motivate people to end poverty?
Six Figure Moms, what are you doing to teach your kids about world poverty? As important, what are you teaching them about poverty in the US? Where I live in sunny San Diego, it’s easy to think that every body lives a happy, prosperous life but that just isn’t the case. In the spirit of giving in December, our Six Figure Moms Club event will focus on Microfinance. Look for more details coming soon on our events page.
Hope you can join us. Today, take some time to visit other blogs. As of the time of this post, there are over 11,000 bloggers participating in Blog Action Day writing about Poverty. I’m excited to read what they’ve written and I hope you are too.
Last night, I was appalled to have to share my Twitter with Rachel Pradhan, President of Blaze Interactive & Indra Successful Coach Marketing. (RACHEL! Did you not read my last blog entry????? Twitter and I are involved!)
You see, Rachel so graciously agreed to be a guest lecturer for a Six Figure Moms Club event in San Diego. Rachel and I spoke to a room of folks fairly new to social media about the almost endless benefits and ways to make money on the internet.
I spoke before Rachel arrived and started with a live Twitter feed up on the screen. The group was very inquisitive about Twitter and wanted a casual overview of how it works. We talked about the following:
- The feeling of confusion many people experience when they first sign up for Twitter. We discussed how many of them (me too) had signed up, sat there looking at the sceen saying, “Okay, I don’t get it. Now what do I do? How do I figure out who to follow?” or ” These people that have asked to follow me seem like stalkers. How do I block them? How do I make sure to protect my privacy and make sure I’m safe?”
- @PHDBRE was Tweeting away and had four posts in a row on the twitter feed. Everyone wanted to know why so many? Was she just really talkative? An overpromoter? What was she doing? I read her tweets aloud and explained that she was in the midst of conducting an online survey. Also, that @PHDBRE and I had communicated through DM’s earlier in the day about bloggers and my guess at their potential MBTI type of NT. This lead to a discussion of What is a DM? and Next, “Wow, Angie, Do you know her?” “Well, No, not face-to-face, but I hope to soon, and we did have a business related conversation (140 characters of course) earlier today”. They were amazed, glossy eyed and somewhat enthralled.
- Next we discussed how @AshleyMahaffey who was in the room, came because she found out about the event through connecting with me on Twitter. Next, we discussed a potential Tweetup between Ashley, me, @AnnVertel and @MariSmith sometime in the next few weeks…all as a result of Ashlee following me on Twitter.
- The group asked how do you learn Twitter lingo. @AshleyMahaffey offered a great resouce I can’t remember (so I’m hoping she’ll post it in the comments here) and I refered again to @MariSmith ’s Twitter LIngo Demystified.
- We also discussed that although several folks were interested in starting a blog, there were only a few folks in the room (in addition to the folks mentioned above) that had blogs like www.sandiegobargainmama.com, and www.healthwisewomen.com. This took us to a discussion of the untapped market of opportunity awaiting these six figure moms if they chose to embrace it.
Ok, back to Rachel, the main speaker. She presented, “Creating a FAPulous Website” and talked about how websites must have a clear Focus, contain a call to Action and be Personal. She then discussed the elements of a great website and maximizing the user experience. I twitted as she presented in hopes that any Tweeps not able to attend could get a taste of what she was talking about. (You can see what I tweeted by going here). Rachel also discussed how easy it is today to develop alliances with people using social media. Specifically, she discussed how she and her husband felt lucky to be corresponding with Guy Kawasaki, famous author/blogger.
We started a discussion in tandem both in the room and on Twitter about preferred Contact Management Systems/Autoresponders (aWeber vs. IContact) that continues today online. Meanwhile, Rachel’s husband, @webocsupport was twitting me, “Is the presentation over and what have you done with my wife?” from her home over an hour away. The night was a great success.
Today, just before writing this post, I finished my work day ordering some printed goods from a vendor I learned about at the event last night. When I called, she said, I know you, I follow you on Twitter and I offer discounts to all my Twitter friends. Check out @vpg_printing. She’s even offering some fabulous bonus to whomever is lucky enough to become her 1000th follower which she expects to happen by November 1. Perhaps that could be you?
One last note. If you are still wondering what you can do with Twitter, check out this great blogpost written by Dahna M. Chandler about Warren Whitlock, who she deems “Dr. Twitter” ” Why Do I Need Twitter and How Do I Use It? A Twitter expert tells you”.
Maybe, I’ll deem myself, “Mrs. Twitter” and see if that sticks….but alas, I think I might be getting ahead of myself a bit in our relationship…
So, again, can you see just a little why I can’t help but continue my affair with Twitter? I’m smitten.
Ok, I admit it. I’m crazy in love with Twitter. Just like my historical attractions to men, this is happening with Twitter because I’m learning things I never even conceived. My relationship with Twitter started about six months ago when we casually started seeing each other. I signed up for a twitter account and then installed the Twitter application on my facebook account. By doing this, I could tweet and my updates would show up in Twitter and on my Facebook page as “status updates”. So efficient which really does it for me. I thought Twitter and I knew each other pretty well. But little did I know, our relationship, analogous to relationships with men, was to grow in layers.
Next I went to Blog World Expo, a true Twitter explosion. The entire conference was run using Twitter as it’s heartbeat. Below are just a few examples of Twitter’s usage.
- The conference leaders created a unique identifier (a hash code in Twitter lingo) for the conference and instructed attendees to identify all messages with this code. That allowed us to track all conference related tweets.
- Most sessions had twitter displayed on the presentation screen so that attendees and seminar leaders could have live, direct communication during presentations which made for a real-time, interactive learning experience. This also allowed participants to almost be in two places at once since you could be reading other seminar tweets from other rooms.
- Most conference related communication was done using Twitter. (This included anything related to conference materials, schedule changes, meetings, after hours events, lunch, etc.)
I really started to get the power of Twitter for business and my heart raced faster.
The next big step in our relationship was the Vice Presidential Debate last Thursday. Did you realize that on certain channels, Americans could tweet their thoughts while Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were debating. Check out Hack the Debate? Seriously! Tweeps were sending their tweets into public television and they were appearing across the bottom of the TV screen complete with their Twitter names and pictures. They were likely censored but this was an historic moment for social media. Think about that. People all around the globe had the opportunity to weigh in on the VP debate. I kept thinking, “the only way this is really happening is if the government does not really grasp how Twitter works”. So incredible. I couldn’t sleep well that night thinking about the possibilities for working women and the next thing that Twitter would teach me. What WOULD be next?
So, the next thing was a random encounter with a work colleague I hadn’t seen in three years. I started to update him about me. He stopped me and said, “I know all about you Angie. In fact, a bunch of us were just talking about you at lunch. We were talking about how often you update your facebook page. We keep track of what you’re up to and in fact I know who you had lunch with yesterday.” A bit embarassing for me that this friend thought I had nothing better to do than update my facebook page so I asked him if he knew about my friend Twitter. He did not. So, what’s a girl to do to explain her relationships? Until the world catches up, it’s nothing but opportunity for those of in the know.
So why am I choosing to out myself and my relationship with Twitter? Because ladies, each day the picture becomes clearer and clearer to me that there are so many opportunities for all of you who have even a slight interest in the internet to create so many great opportunities for yourself. Coincidentally, our live Six Figure Moms Club meeting in San Diego this week covers this topic. You can reengineer your career using New Media options if you want to.
If you would like to learn more about Twitter (or New Media in general), check out expert, Mari Smith’s, Twitter LIngo Demystified
Mari is amazing and continues to stay on the cutting edge of New Media as it seems she in a different learning conference every other day. If you only choose to follow one person on Twitter. She’s a great person to start with. I’ll be writing a post about her soon so stay tuned for more on Mari.
Waiting in the very crowded Bare Lounge at the Mirage Hotel last week during a Blog World Expo party, I was standing next to a guy i didn’t know. Naturally we were talking as there was nothing else to do but wait. It was hot and we were thirsty. He never told me his name but he was nice and funny so I didn’t mind. I ended up seeing him wherever I went the rest of the evening but still didn’t know him. That is, until I walked into my first session the next morning on Monetizing Your Blog. There he sat on the panel. Famous Brian Clark, aka CopyBlogger. Brian’s blog is a Technorati top 10 and he recently won the #1 spot of Top Ten Blogs for Writers for the third consecutive year.
I heard Brian speak in several sessions during the conference. His message was always consistent, “Focus on Writing Great Content for Your Audience and Be Authentic”. On a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) panel, he mentioned how a blogger could do all the right things for SEO and gain a number one spot on google, but still if the content wasn’t any good and nobody was reading it or linking to it, then it doesn’t really matter now does it? I loved every comment this guy had to say. Why? Because his philosophies are about life, not just about blogging and writing. He’s a guy who’s all about keeping it real, doing what you love and letting the rest take care of itself (or at least it appears so from the outside).
So, what does this have to do with a Six Figure Mom? Let’s see? Being authentic, doing what you love and letting the rest take care if itself. I think there’s at least a few things we can learn from Brian Clark. My advice is that you add copyblogger to your RSS feed for a few days and read some of his writing. His post on Monday, Are you a Spineless Blogger?, although written for writers, really can be used for all sorts of problem solving. This is a coaching article folks. You can use it to work through anything where you are striving for more clarity. Bloggers love comments so leave a few for Copyblogger and be sure to mention that Six Figure Moms Club sent you.
I just returned from an 18 day trip last night. My last stop was Blog World Expo ‘08 in Las Vegas. I went to the conference to enhance my understanding of the New Media industry and to learn how to better serve you, my readers, as a writer/blogger. Little did I know of the almost limitless benefits that this little four day trip would bring me. I’m still digesting everything I learned over the past few days and I know I will be for quite some time. However, the one gem of the conference is this:
“If you’re a blogger, you’ve stepped up to your life, addressed your issues, cleaned things up enough that you’re willing to put yourself on stage to the world. You’re an entrepreneur, you’re authentic, you’re passionate, you’re open, you have a genuine desire to help others. You think outside of the box about life options.”
Those of you that know me or who have been reading my blog, know that this is my message to my clients and readers. Can you imagine how lucky I felt to be in a room with 1,000+ other likeminded people? SOOOO amazing!
That in itself would have been enough but in addition, I personally met and talked to at least ten bloggers on Technorati’s Top 100 list and I’m not talking about “Hi, How are you?, Nice to Meet You”…but real, genuine, meaty, helpful conversations. These folks are down to earth, modest, pioneers of their industry and they are ready to help open doors for the next generation to step through and join them. Crazy! I’ll be writing about some of them in the future in more detail but here are just a few of the folks I met, attended class or twitted with during the conference:
- Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV),
- Tim Ferriss (Author, 4 Hour Work Week),
- Mike Shinoda (Lincoln Park),
- Brian Clark (CopyBlogger),
- Guy Kawasaki (Alltop),
- John Chow (John Chow),
- Jeremy Shoemaker (ShoeMoney),
- Wendy Piersall (eMom)
So, the list of things we six figure moms can learn from the blogger community is long. This is a whole community of people making a living via flexible work options. They work long and hard but they love what they do and they live passionately. They are pioneers just like you can be. I feel like I just hit the jackpot.
As soon as I get a little sleep and collect my thoughts, I’ll share some more with you and we’ll continue on our journey together. In the meantime, feel free to email me with any specific questions.
I am sitting here in my dad’s kitchen in Florida thinking how I should be writing a post for my blog. Sorry guys, it’s been a few days but I’ve been consumed with family obligations. I want coffee but have no time for driving to Starbucks. Too many things to get done today and not enough time (ahh, the old familiar motto of the Working Mother rears it’s head again…but today for a different reason). My dad has been in the hospital since 9/11 and may be coming home today or tomorrow. I leave early tomorrow morning for Blog World Expo in Las Vegas so today I want to do everything I can to spend every minute with my Dad and to prepare him for his homecoming. I’m dressed for the gym, but am changing my mind, thinking my time is better invested in Dad things today.
So, back to coffee. My dad and his wife drink instant coffee. I just can’t do it. I look around the kitchen and settle on Good Earth Tea. Funny. Good Earth Tea is here because I gave it to my dad last time he visited my house. Next, time to choose a coffee mug. Should be simple enough, right? Not so, I realize as I’m looking in my family’s cabinet that I am a coffee mug snob. All of the coffee mugs here have sayings and cartoons that fit the personalities of the people who live here. I’m stuck, I don’t relate to any of them. Funny huh? It’s just a crazy coffee mug and I am wasting time. I finally settle on one I can stomach. So, now I have tea from a coffee mug that is reminding me, “If Older is Better then I’m approaching Magnificent”. It’s even got the word “Magnificent” printed on the inside so when you take a sip, you get a second reminder. Too funny. Reminders to be our best self really are everywhere aren’t they? We just have to listen to them and keep our eyes open. So, today I will be more magnificent than I would have been otherwise thanks to the reminder from my dad’s coffee mug.
I like being in my dad’s space among his things. I am here alone as everyone else has left for there day. I didn’t grow up here so it’s different than coming home to your childhood memories. I look around breathing it all in and committing my dad’s life to memory. It’s my job to leave positive energy where ever I can and to leave my essence behind to remind him I was here. I want him to remember to stay positive and continue on the healing path. My dad had major surgery on 9/11 for some localized cancer. He’ll have a full recovery after a somewhat extensive healing process. I’m so glad I could be here to witness his vulnerability, strength, charm, and childlike amusement of the whole process. It’s also been fun to watch him flirting with the nurses. He’s enjoyed that part for sure. Hospitals, no matter how hard they try, are just not fun places to spend a week. I’ll be glad when he’s safely back in his own space.
So, if you are reading this from the comfort of your own coffee mug, I solute. Have a great day and remember how magnificent you are today. Until my next post, stay fabulous!
PS…Yes, this hospital does have it’s own McDreamy and McSteamy’s in case you were wondering fully equipped with blue eyes that would make any girl’s heart melt.