Last weekend’s Edward Jones Wacky Weekend in Dallas, Texas was a blast!  I will have a better post about it all as soon as I have pictures (they are coming soon!).

As I’m diving back into work this week, I finally found the time to watch a 15 minute TED Talk given by Amanda Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.  Her talk, “The Cost of Hope” not just pulled on my heart strings, but shredded them to pieces.  As she describes her husband’s journey with cancer, I am acutely aware of the parallels to Nick’s journey.   Amanda describes the power of living (and dying) with HOPE and her message was very healing for me.  Nick and I never said goodbye, either, because we embraced HOPE rather than death.  I have had many sleepless nights wondering if we were wrong in not verbalizing the inevitable; this talk silenced those lingering doubts.

May HOPE bless you all.