What Will You Put on Your Gift List?

  As we slam into the end of the year it seems we can’t avoid the bombardment of messages telling us to buy buy buy   Yet, by next year it’s likely whatever was bought this year will either be broken, out of fashion, not the Apple 8, or lost and forgotten....

Where To Send Hate Mail

  Have you ever found yourself the recipient or sender of hate mail? Let me back up, Not exactly hate mail spewing vitriolic bullying slander,  but a note that is raw, unguarded, accusatory, blaming, needy, demanding or anything else you know will provoke a...

Soup As A Meditation

When I don’t know what else to do I make chicken soup.   I called a girlfriend I hadn’t spoken to in a couple of months.  “I have breast cancer,” she said. “This s a bump in the road. I’m having surgery next week. We’ll...

What’s In Your Blind Spot?

      It was 5:15  am. I awoke to the sound of my husband yelling up the stairs. “My car’s blocked and I need to leave now.”  I raced for the keys, jumped in my daughter’s car and without adjusting the seat or mirrors, began the...

What Do You Want?

When I ask this BIG QUESTION about relationships most people tell me what they don’t want.   “I don’t want someone who lies or cheats. I don’t want someone who doesn’t communicate. I don’t want someone who’s lazy.” When I ask what someone wants in a job, they...

Can You Hear Me Now?

Don’t Listen To Yourself Talk To Yourself. These were the words of Jon Dorenbos, a pro-football player, contestant on America’s Got Talent. A juicy piece of wisdom he dealt out while shuffling cards for his special brand of magic, that was as much inspirational as it...