Life is a Precious Gift

  I found the following draft from last August tonight when I was looking through my #wordpress app.  Over the past couple weeks, I’ve spent more time in hospitals than I care to think about. One of those, an elderly woman with pulmonary embolisms and the other, a young man with brain aneurysms.  Fortunately for…

Fulfilled

Every once in awhile you need to take a break and do something to get yourself refreshed. I did just that this past weekend. Not by laying on the couch for two days watching sports, but rather sitting in a car driving all over Southern California. @conner_shep27 graduated high school this past spring and accepted…

#AuntieSara

So yesterday was a bit difficult. I had to say goodbye to my nephew who had spent the last six weeks in Vegas for summer vacation with his dad (mom lives in Southern California). Without going into the details, these past six weeks have been an emotional whirlwind…happiness, hurt, anger and just plain sad.  Having no…

Defining My Personal Value

My name is Sara Velasquez (and that is me pictured above). Until today, I was completely anti blogs…didn’t (and not totally sure to this point) quite understand why people needed to share their innermost thoughts or write messages about random topics to be viewed by anyone on this wonderful platform we call the Internet. Blogging…