Category Archives: Love

Losing Weight

It so happens that I’m participating in Weight Watchers these days. So far I have lost about 26 pounds, and intend to lose more. I attend the meetings with my wife every Saturday morning. When we first started attending, I thought I would be bored. I have been anything but. What I have been fascinated […]

April 8, 2010 – 11:26 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Love | Comments (4)

Wedding

I have been off-line for the last month and some. I got married on September 13th. The preceding days had been filled with intense, sometimes frantic preparations, a big family picnic and a Cuban style pig roast. Time passed in a blink, and suddenly Carmen and I were taking our vows — at dusk at […]

October 6, 2009 – 3:21 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love | Comments (15)

The Problem With “Touchy-Feely”

There is no term that communicates quite so much irrevocable dismissal by managers in the business world than labeling an action or activity, “touchy-feely.” It is the most prevalent way of discarding information about people. The term suggests all those really icky “hygiene” demands of employees, dealing with the stuff of relationships in the workplace […]

February 25, 2009 – 6:41 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Healing, Journey of Unlearning, Love | Comments (13)

In Memoriam: My Father

My father died last Saturday at the age of 96. He had been coping with a series of small strokes that affected his hand movements, hearing, and speaking. He had been a master carpenter most of his life, so his senses and eye/hand coordination were his most fundamental tools. The losses had added up a […]

February 13, 2009 – 9:35 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love | Comments (8)