Yearly Archives: 2013


  • How to Live Without Regrets

    There is one simple reason I have few if any regrets about the years when my children were small. I was a calligrapher long before I was an essential oil distributor or a manufacturer of Terra Cotta..


  • Is There a Short Cut to Happiness?

    Wouldn’t it be great if there were a short cut to happiness? We’re busy trying to manifest things in our lives that we feel will bring us to that wonderful destination: happiness but we are missing something…


  • A Different Santa Claus Story

    When my husband was just a little boy his older brother woke him one Christmas Eve so he could witness his older sister surreptitiously filling the stockings. The message: there was no Santa Claus providing gifts –..



  • Is Life Supporting You?

    Things were not going well for me. The problems were coming so fast I barely had any time to catch my breath after I’d solved one problem before the next problem showed up. I kept solving problems;..



  • Are You Living Your Dreams?

    Today we welcome Reba Linker to host on the LFI porch! She has just released her book, Follow the Yarn, a book she describes as “a celebration of the extraordinary through the ordinary”. Tell us more Reba! I’ve..


  • Have You Ever Lost Hope?

    “The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Very few of us make it from the delivery room of our birth to the cemetery where we finally rest without having lost hope..