I am pleased to reprint the beginning of my guest post, published yesterday on Tess Marshall’s wonderful blog, The Bold Life.
It’s often hard to know what to say to a friend or loved one during his/her trying times. We don’t know the ‘right’ words.
We are uncomfortable with their pain. We feel helpless. And it certainly brings up our own vulnerabilities.
Watching my favorite morning show while exercising, I saw a segment on this amazing feat
We are born to die. It’s a harsh statement but its truth cannot be questioned.
We are all living on uncharted terrain, rough and rocky and very unstable under our
We press the refresh button on our computer. How much more so do we humans
Something precious and significant is taken from us. A death, an accident, a diagnosis, a
The earth has started its next rotation around the sun and a new year is
This month’s book for my parent book clubs is Big Magic – Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Yes, she wrote Eat, Pray and Love.) There’s no question this
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Welcome to my new and updated website! In light of our nation’s election turmoil, anguish and as many negative words as you can come up with for this most
Meet it, embrace it, look at it straight in its face and do what you have to do to make it the best possible life you have. Given what may
We often have no control over a lousy circumstance. A death, an illness, an accident, a breakup, a job loss – these things can just happen to us, without any
How do we find our way back into the world after an awful and painful life situation? After a divorce we wonder if we’ll ever love again. After the
I’m sure we’ve all, at some point, looked at someone going through a difficult time who appears to be handling it fairly well and remarked, ‘I could never be like
People sometimes say, ‘Don’t just sit there, do something.’ But we have to reverse that statement to say, ‘Don’t just do something, sit there.’” Thich Nhat Hanh The introduction