Category: On Life & Love

I want to leave this world with the assurance that I have left nothing unsaid. When I go forward I want the people I have walked with to be assured they know everything there was to know. I do not wish to have questions remaining when there is time in these days to answer them.

Every morning as the sun comes up, I sit with a warm beverage and listen to the world awake.  Once the organic sounds have wiped the cobwebs from my slumbered mind, I switch on the morning news.  Lately, it seems, the accounts of violence are becoming more and more frequent.  This new reality has made

I’ve been thinking a lot about living in gratitude and how it can change a person.  I recently had a test to my mantra about living a life full of appreciation and kindness.  My campaign of ‘I Can Do Better’ was put under assessment to see if it stood up under a test of time. 

We are now immersed in a season of growth where the celebrations of Easter, Passover, and Ramadan are all beautifully framed by the Vernal Equinox. It is a special semester of life where birth and rebirth are celebrated; where we are all, no matter religion or creed, are given the chance to purify our souls

You have to put yourself in the right position to receive what goodness is coming to you. Spending time in giving thanks is a great place to start. These small acknowledgements keep you aligned. Offering a daily prayer for divine understanding will allow you to recognize what it is that you haven’t seen before, and

I love this old photo of my eldest granddaughter – I love her little foot skipping up in glee and the coy smile on her face. She is looking forward with a rainbow framing her thoughts. I thought it so appropriate for this post for a myriad of reasons. For one, she is the next

Why am I telling you all this? Visiting and rejoicing with the things that you take pleasure in returns you to a place of appreciation and recognition. That’s a serving of gratitude on a silver platter! Try it today – make a short list of your favorite “likes” and see how it makes you feel!

I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness and exactly how you go about finding it. I think there is a need for more happiness in the world. There are already so many struggles we go through on the highway of life, is finding happiness just another thing to grapple with or is it already there

I believe in angels, I believe in decency, I believe in the healing powers of love and I, too, believe in the destruction that comes from neglect. We are now living in a world that is upside down.  There is strife just about everywhere you turn. No one seems to know what precisely to do.

If I have been radio-silent for a while, it was with good reason. I have been simmering over a bit of censorship I have been experiencing. As a writer I take the First Amendment to the US Constitution to heart. As a United States citizen, I am promised that I will not be abridged in