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 –..

When I was growing up, the Christmas season began for me with one very special event in late September; the arrival of the Sears Christmas Catalogue! I would sit with it on the Saturday morning when I..

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;..

We were nearly at my Dad’s house on the Thanksgiving weekend and stopped at a traffic light but something was wrong. We could smell fuel and when the light turned green the car would not go. As..

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..

“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..

I had a wonderful uncle who was big and tough and just a little scary, at least to me when I was younger. Whenever I went to town and visited him and my aunt he would bark..

If you read my book, The Happy Place, you know how much I admire Dr Joe Dispenza and his book, Evolve Your Brain. If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so hard to change yourself or your life..

I was watching an episode of Anger Management on TV the other day. The main character, Charlie, lost his cell phone and was unable to call his girlfriend, ex-wife or daughter on a borrowed phone because he didn’t..