“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~ Henry James If I had to choose one summer activity it would be this; sitting on the shore..

Barbara is hosting the conversation on the LFI porch today, starting what is bound to be an interesting discussion about something most of us have pondered. Barbara blogs over here! Take it away Barbara! I always thought I..

Today we welcome Patricia Weber to the Life of a Blogger series! She says she is an introvert-cum-blogger, an interesting conversion as blogging has helped her to connect with many people in a wonderful way. Patricia’s blog..

I am excited to introduce my brother to you! Allan Abbass is a Family-Physician-cum-Psychiatrist who specializes in, researches, and teaches worldwide about a psychotherapeutic treatment model called Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. If you have ever wondered if..

This is the sixth post in the Dear LFI series where we converge here on the porch to answer specific, personal, life-issue questions posed by anonymous contributors. Will you offer your thoughts on this issue? I recently ended yet..

We know that bad things do happen to good people.  So let’s imagine for a moment that we could each remove one “bad thing” from the table of Life. What one Life rule would you make? Would it..

Today we welcome Janet Louise Stephenson, a blogger I’m just getting to know, to share her blogging story. Janet writes about personal transformation here. Take it away Janet! After a lifetime of people-pleasing, I made a commitment to myself..

I love the definition of advice in a song by Baz Luhrmann: “Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts..

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles William Eliot My daughter knows me well. For two years now on..