Category: Dying My Way

    • Ghosted by Retail: A Career Obituary

      There are many deaths we experience long before our physical one. Some arrive quietly, without ceremony, and leave us standing in the middle of our lives wondering who we are now that something we loved no longer exists. For me, one of those deaths was the slow, almost imperceptible ending of a career I never…

    • Six Years and a Few More Days

      Six Years and a Few More Days

      The first reflection in my Dying My Way series Some stories take six years to write. Not because the words aren’t there. Because the person writing them isn’t ready yet. This is one of those stories. Years ago, I bought a domain called From the Kitchen Table. I imagined it becoming a place where I…

    • Max Baer – Not The Boxer, But Still A Champion

      Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves – Mason Cooley His name was Max and he was an 8-year-old Malinois that we adopted from the shelter a day before his life ended. We first met Max scrolling through pictures of dogs hoping to find one that would fit…