I love the autumn! It’s my favourite time of year. Who could not love the way the earth morphs into the most beautiful colors, as if making a final curtain-call before settling into the white of winter?..

Do you ever feel as if you have little if any control over things that happen in your life? I’ve been feeling this way recently. For some time now we’ve been harassed by telemarketers and I was..

I’m very proud to introduce my daughter, Natasha Gosselin, and her colleague, Sophie-Claire Valiquette-Tessier, as guest authors today on the porch.  This post springs from the research they are each doing for their graduate theses in psychology…

When my children were young I used to tell them that if they were going to make an assumption they should make one that would allow them to feel good. Assumptions are guess-work anyway. And it’s never..

We connect with our friends and family more and more now with our mobile devices but if we unplugged temporarily, would we be left feeling alone in a crowd? I was talking with my sister-in-law recently and..

“When you’re up to your armpits in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original goal was to drain the swamp.”  I had a great chat with Mark Harai on Facebook the other day and I asked..

Is today one of those days? What am I doing, you ask, where is this going? Will I ever get there? The other day I had a visit a with good friend who with her husband is..

I’m so happy that Steve Rice agreed to continue a conversation here that started last week on a LFI Hangout. (Come to the next Hangout – they’re a lot of fun!) Steve is the author of An..

“One can never have too many friends. Only too many to properly take care of.” Rod McKuen I love my friends and I love having friends! They round out my life, they complete it. Where would I..