July 2024 – theCauseCoach

Sixty Weeks to 60: Aging Parents

July 30, 2024August 31, 2024thecausecoach

(41 Weeks)

The most challenging – frustrating, sad, overwhelming, disorienting – time in my life was when parents were aging, and my daughter was very young. They had retired and moved to the East End of Long Island in 1988 when I was 23. They were fiercely independent and never asked much of me. They were also very good at taking care of each other.

Sixty Weeks to 60: Down the Shore

July 23, 2024August 31, 2024thecausecoach

(42 Weeks)

The beach is my happy place, but as a Jersey Girl, I’m a little embarrassed to confess now that I spent very little time “down the shore” until I was able to drive. Although, Point Pleasant Beach, about a 90-minute drive from home, became a day-trip destination in my late teens and throughout my adulthood in New Jersey, trips to any beach in New Jersey with my parents was a rarity.

Sixty Weeks to 60: Ireland

July 16, 2024August 31, 2024thecausecoach

(43 Weeks)

“Welcome home!” said the customs agent at Shannon Airport noticing my place of birth on my U.S. Passport. It was hardly home given that I had only spent a total of two weeks there over the course of the previous 45 years since I had left for America as a toddler.

Sixty Weeks to 60: My Mentor

July 9, 2024August 31, 2024thecausecoach

(44 Weeks)

It has been said that people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Can it be all three?

Sixty Weeks to 60: America’s Birthday

July 2, 2024August 31, 2024thecausecoach

(45 Weeks)

Two short years away is America’s 250^th Birthday. This is a big milestone event, or at least it seems like it should be. Although there doesn’t seem to be the kind of hype I remember leading up to the Bicentennial in 1976. Congress had created the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission as far back as 1966.