The primary reason for our Foundation’s being is to move forward in supporting others in their growth, especially those in underserved communities who do not have access to personal growth resources. Recently, I've noticed that underserved communities are becoming polarized and isolated rather than reached towards with a helping hand.
A deeply moving story of Ron and Mariah Gladis as they face the challenges of ALS with courage, humor, and unwavering hope. Through Ron’s honest storytelling, we witness a journey of love, belief, "sacred denial" of fear and limitation.
I’d like to share something personal with you. I’m missing Mariah these days, and I have some small regrets around her death. One is that I often question whether I checked in with her enough about her day-to-day living with ALS. I do know that she was a model of putting ALS on the backburner so she and we could ALWAYS move forward. Still, that thought haunts me sometimes.
I’m currently reading a book, Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr, about a family that spends a year in Rome with their newborn twins. The book relates current and historical Rome, and I’m always fascinated by that time connection. But what I’m continually relating to is the author’s awareness of time and place
When I was in college at Villanova University, a Catholic school, everyone was required to take a religion class every year. The first class in my senior year, a young priest showed up, and after writing his name on the board, proceeded to reach into a box and take a bunch of communion wafers and toss them out into the room.
Dear Friends of the Foundation, Mariah had a knack for shopping for clothes. And so, even with ALS, she was always dressed to the nines. This was a part of her resiliency; ignoring her disability and moving forward to do…
This year has been a difficult one and I’m sure you feel it too. There has been and continues to be a destructive pandemic which has killed over 1.6 million people worldwide and more than 304,000 in the United States as of this writing.
“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no, Mead said,…
It has been two years since Mariah died. I still struggle with understanding it, though some might think it was inevitable. I never did. Nor did she. I’ve been rereading “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. It’s about a…
Many years ago I was fascinated by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text considered a guide to an ethical life, and an oracle of one’s personal future. It was fun.