Personal Stories | Sheila Collins

My Excitement’s Dancing Me

by Sheila Collins | Aug 8, 2013 | Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

It’s twenty-one days till my book Warrior Mother’s official launch, but there’s plenty to get excited about in the meantime. And excited I am. I can tell because my insides feel like I’ve left my motor running and my body is going faster than my brain. I keep...

Journey to a Shrinking Frontier

by Sheila Collins | Jun 18, 2013 | Environment, Grieving, Personal Stories

A trip to the Alaskan Glaciers is on many peoples’ bucket list of things to do before they die, and Rich and I were among that group. In 2009 we had a cruise to Alaska all planned and nearly paid for as a way to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. But 2009 was the...

Including Wellbeing in our Measures of Success

by Sheila Collins | Jun 5, 2013 | Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

I appreciated a friend’s sharing with me Arianna Huffington’s recent commencement address at Smith College. Instead of the usual messages to “go out there and make more money and break more glass ceilings,” she challenged the woman graduates to redefine success. She...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

Is The Story True?

by Sheila Collins | Mar 1, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Personal Stories, Writing

In a recent column, Maureen Dowd raised the question, “Why can’t filmmakers tell the story as it actually was?” Lamenting the creative license taken in Oscar nominated films, she objected to the fabricated car chase in Argo, done for dramatic effect, and the...

Feedback Part Two

by Sheila Collins | Feb 11, 2013 | Health, Personal Stories, Technology

Feedback is the return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input, especially when used to maintain performance or to control a system or process. My friend Pam got an electronic activity tracker for Christmas, and like I’ve done with other good...

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My Excitement’s Dancing Me

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Including Wellbeing in our Measures of Success

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

Is The Story True?

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