You keep my literary bar high. Knowing you are reading this holds me to the highest standards of which I am capable. It causes me to pour over a post and tweak and edit for days before..

There are always five things on my Holiday To Do list: getting the Christmas cards ready and mailed shopping; this is when it begins to feel like Christmas! baking the traditional family sweets decorating; I’m trying  something..

I participated in only one team sport in High School; Cross Country running. At the end of the season I was awarded a trophy for being the most valuable player. That’s not the reason I remember my..

Have you seen the TV show Flash Forward? In the show which aired for one season in 2009, the whole world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. During that time most people have a vision..

Do you ever notice how the “nicest thing” isn’t necessarily the biggest thing? How, then, can it touch you so profoundly and leave such an indelible mark on your heart? I was twenty and my brother seventeen..

One Friday morning when I was in the bank, the line-up was short but barely moving. As I commented on this to the lady behind me I learned she had to leave soon to pick up her..

They say the qualities we admire in others are qualities we have but don’t recognize in ourselves. If this is  true, I must be amazing! In my healing work I once listened to a client  bemoan the..

I think you need to know who you are before you can know what you want to do in life. When I was in my first year of university my aunt used to caution me not to..

Christmas morning, the first day of vacation, the birth of a child or grandchild – these things definitely qualify as good days. But most days are ordinary days, aren’t they? One night, three years after my mother died,  I..