If you know me well you’re cringing now and thinking “Oh no!” as my closest friends do when I say “I have an idea!” What? You’re doing that? Aw! The idea was inspired by what’s been happening..

They say you can never truly understand someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes, but can you ever really do that? I never knew what to say at a funeral wake until my mother..

We welcome Steve for the first time as host at Life, for instance! He, too, generously offered to start the conversation while I’m away for a bit and what a conversation he’s starting!  Steve , who blogs over..

For as long as I can remember I’ve been pondering these three questions: What makes us sick? What helps us to heal? What keeps us healthy in the first place? When I was growing up my mother..

The blogosphere fills a need in our world today for connectedness and support that used to be supplied by our neighbourhoods in the past. Take a walk with me through my neighbourhood here in the blogosphere.

I love watching those amazing TED Talks. They represent years of thought, research, writing and teaching of the concepts about which the presenter is passionate all distilled into an eighteen-minute presentation! Imagine it’s you giving one of..

Often self-development courses include an assignment of writing your own obituary as a way of seeing what you want to be and do in life.  I thought it might be fun to boil all that down to..

I watched a great documentary program called Doc Zone recently, an episode called “The Age of Anxiety”. It was about the over-prescribing of drugs for what are now known as anxiety disorders. People interviewed said what we..

Years ago I watched the movie “Heartburn” starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. I’m not recommending it – I found it to be a fairly depressing movie- but one part of it stayed with me. Streep and..