I recently gathered with family to mourn the passing of my uncle, Father Frank.  Standing in the midst of so many others who were also grieving, I thought sadly: We are like sheep without a shepherd. It..

What do you say to a parent who is grieving the loss of her child? What to say when faced with the living evidence of the nightmare no parent wants to face. Here are some words that help.

Is stubbornness a good thing or a bad thing? Once again we enter the paradox. New post today! Come join the discussion!

Everyone needs a lifeboat at some time in their lives. We need one when life overwhelms us with grief, sorrow, or tragedy. We need one in ordinary times when we are lost and are struggling to find our way again.

Christmas is a paradoxical time, isn’t it?  It’s a happy time.  Strike that.  It’s supposed to be a happy time.  Strike that too. For some, it was once a happy time and now it’s not.  Not anymore…

I have mentioned already that I’ve been taking a Positive Psychology course  at Udemy.com (which I highly recommend). On re-listening today I picked up something I missed on the first listen. The instructor is talking about the..

Do you meditate regularly? I’d been wanting to develop a meditation practice for some time. Then I learned something in my positive psychology course at udemy.com that inspired me to take action; when you want to create a..

This should be shown to children – or maybe children don’t need to be taught how to be empathetic. We have all heard the story of the child who goes every day to visit the neighbor who..

“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..