08/26/2026
My lovely mom passed away last week. She was diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer in June and we lost her 10 weeks later. I’m so grateful I got to spend a lot of time with her in NY this summer, reliving lots of memories and saying all the important things.
I left the corporate workforce for a lot of reasons, but one of them was that I wasn’t there when I lost my brother to cancer 10 years ago. I was giving a presentation to interior designers in Philadelphia; I have no idea what the presentation was about, and I’m sure no one else does either. I wanted control of my time, and to be able to prioritize the things that were most important to me.
A huge bonus of owning my own business are things like I was able to meet my parents in New Orleans last fall to see Paul McCartney in concert, and meet my mom in New York City for breakfast at Tiffany’s. Travel was her love language, quality time is mine and I feel so grateful that we were able to have so much of both.
I know I’m in an incredibly fortunate situation to get to do these things, and it was also extremely intentional to create a life for myself in which I get to do what I love and also decide where my most valuable resource – time - goes to 💜
