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  • Thank You

    It’s been seven months since Alex died and I imagine you’re tired of hearing those three words by now. To me, they are surreal. Still. When it happened, I stepped away from LFI because I could hardly..


  • Special Features

    Community and Community Building This is a series of articles about community building, the subject of my second book! Please join in as we dissect the characteristics of community and community building to more fully understand it..


  • Life: A User’s Manual

    Life, for instance is like a porch where we gather to talk about life. It has comfortable chairs, cookies, tea and coffee. Except you’ll have to provide your own tea or coffee. And the cookies. But you..



  • Would You Like to Live in a Perfect World?

    At breakfast the other day my husband posed an interesting question. He asked, “What would a perfect world look like?” We considered the idea. In a perfect world there would be no birth defects, no injury, no illness,..


  • Do You Want it All?

    “I don’t want it all – I just want a really nice piece of it!” ~ movie “The Women” I laughed when I heard the character in the movie say she just wanted a really nice piece..


  • What Gives Your Life Meaning?

    Twice this question arose in my life recently. The first time was when I somehow came upon Viktor Frankl’s book: Man’s Search for Meaning; the second time was in church. The priest, who cited Frankl’s book, said..



  • Is This a Black and White World?

    I used to see a world of absolutes where everything was black and white. It was right or wrong, this way or that way; a world without shades of gray.  I think it was more comfortable to think of..