09/01/2026
Memoir Monday! I thought my book was finished. 👏
All thirteen chapters were written. But when I stepped back and looked at the manuscript as a whole, I realized something was missing.
Not another chapter, but the story that explains my entire book.
Some people know my story. But others who are just meeting me and may see my book on Amazon or in a store, don’t.
It’s the story of my Grandpa and the butterflies 🦋 that remind me of him. It’s about a promise I made to him in 1989 that one day, we would go to Kona together.
And when I finally accomplished that goal, he came to Costa Rica with me too.
The blue morpho butterflies represent my Grandpa here in Costa Rica. Telling me that “I am exactly where I am suppose to be.”
That story had been sitting inside an old episode of The Everyday Healthy Human Podcast all along.
Suddenly, I knew exactly where it belonged.
It was the prelude and the thread connecting everything to the title, “Where the Morphos Dance.”
Sometimes you think the story is finished, but obviously, it was still “Unwritten.” 🎶
And then one missing piece shows you what the story was really about all along…
I am finally home. 🦋