Mary Tyler Moore Tribute

Today I was deeply saddened to read that we lost Mary Tyler Moore:

What an icon she truly accomplished so much during her life. The purpose of this blog post is to share with you what Mary Tyler Moore meant to me.


When you think of Mary Tyler Moore what comes to mind? Her staring along side Dick Van Dyke on the Dick Van Dyke show? Her role in the popular 80s movie Ordinary People? Maybe her work with the Juvinelle Diabetes Research Foundation ? To me and to im sure many others I saw her as...Mary Richards

From The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The show was definitely ahead of its time. It was a touch point in the 1970s cause it was one of the first to show in a serious way an independent working woman.

To me the show meant so much more. When I was in high school and struggling for the first time with anxiety I would often spend my lunch in the bathroom . I was so overcome with anxiety ( not knowing at the time I also had Aspergers) that I couldn't eat in the lunch room nor would people welcome me. I didn't have a friend in the world the only thing that would give me courage to sit through lunch was listening to that iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show theme " Love Is All Around"

https://youtu.be/-Zfti7b31rs


Today I admit I shed a tear or two listening to this song. This song meant so much to me in high school because of this I know whatever life throws at me im going to make it after all. This song and Mary Tyler Moore will always have a special place in my heart. I owe a big thank you to Mary Tyler Moore I have no idea where I would be today had she not created The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I truly will miss the woman who could turn the world on with her smile.