Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a beautiful start. As you begin your 2023 journey, I offer the following questions to help you reflect, gain perspective, focus,…

My piece from the the anthology, Homeward. I don’t remember exactly when my stomach began to hurt. I know it wasn’t when we were all piled on my parents’ bed,…

My Mom leaned in close, her eyes brimming over, and quietly said, “I can’t believe this is my last Thanksgiving.”   I wish I had just taken her hand and…

Year in and year out, my friend has lived into the question, “How can I add peace and love to other people’s lives and to the world?

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Make some light.” – Kate DiCamillo I stood there, at first perplexed and then dumbfounded. I was…

When you give 100% you don’t have to deal with regret, along with the sadness and disappointment.

You get it.  You should get a good night’s sleep.  Every. Single. Night.  The research is conclusive.  And extensive.  As Arianne Huffington has so decisively proven, “There’s practically no element…

I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day because the myriad of feelings and reactions the 3 little words, “Happy Valentine’s Day” can stir up deserves to be addressed and, in many…

I can still see the toes of my daughter’s tiny hot pink hiking boots tapping together as she sat staring straight ahead, slightly embarrassed by the goings on around her. …

Three very simple practices that can increase the warmth and connection you feel each and every day.

“The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t.”  Marie Kondo When Marie Kondo first burst into our world, my husband…

I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s because my world and the world around me seem to slow down a bit. Each year, our family takes to the…