Category: On Life & Love

“Listen to your intuition” – I began hearing that mantra from the age of 6 years old on. It was not an unreasonable request, my mother was a very intuitive soul and her innate insights served her well throughout her life. It is not a trait or practice that came easy to me, I was

Common sense is beginning to set in. Social distance has now become the normal pattern. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, I was a hugger. I called everyone ‘darling’ and opened up my arms wide to embrace whoever was in front of me. Not anymore, however – that is a no-no! Now, a smile has to

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.

It was a different kind of Thanksgiving this year, a meal was made but eaten on a tiny space cleared on the cluttered communal table.  Yet, we were grateful, full of gratitude for so many things; our daughter about to give birth to her daughter any minute, of course, was on the top of the

It is important to remember that every thought is a prayer, that’s why I try to keep my thoughts positive. Purity in affirmations is significant as you are the writer and producer of your own story. In order to get to your soul’s purpose, you must follow the rules of engagement. I don’t mean that

I read a quote the other day that made me react… “Here’s to strong women… May we know them, May we be them, May we raise them.” Credit – Sarah Shrader I love thinking about the strength of women and about all the things we accomplish in a lifetime. But I often wonder if other

“To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something to really increase the happiness, welfare and virtue of mankind, this is a choice that is possible for all of us; and certainly it is a good life goal to sail towards.” — Henry Van Dyke Choices. There is

Faith Hope & Charity  I chose this photo of the Professor because I thought it so representative of the virtue Hope. By his posture at the water’s edge, arms extended reaching skyward unaware of the camera, he is demonstrating Hope. The building blocks of Faith, Hope and Charity are like a three-legged stool. They are the

‘Be so good they can’t ignore you!’ I heard that last night as I was walking through the living room on my way to the kitchen. I had been upstairs on my own, and even though removed from the ballgame airing downstairs, I still heard plenty of hoops and hollering as the Professor’s team was

Mankind, we are a fallible sort. We demonstrate our imperfectness every day. For all the many things we do right, the counterbalance is our disregard to what is outside our door. This country was built on the backs of immigrants. To be born an American is to have descended from a foreign soul who arrived