Fuel Your Inner Drive
Reciprocity in friendships is important to me. I want to know friends on deep levels and ask lots of questions to understand how their lives look and feel. Listening well is as important to true communication as talking well. Knowing that friends are as tuned into and interested in me as I am in them [...]
After college my group of girlfriends and I slowly began to separate and forge our own paths. I moved to Boston while one moved to Portland, one to Chicago and another followed her now husband to Alabama. It’s great everyone is finding her own place but it’s hard to keep in touch and even harder [...]
Make the holidays memorable by focusing on what guests will remember We’re in the midst of Passover, and Easter is a few days off. Women everywhere are beginning to stress about how clean the house is, when they will find time to buy groceries, and what they will serve for the family meal. Not to [...]
I was recently looking through old shoe boxes filled with notes, photos, keepsakes and memories that I have never been able to toss out, and I found a letter from a friend I have been drifting away from over the last year or so. While I know that drifting from friends as life gets busier [...]
Forgiveness The first step to forgiveness is the willingness to forgive If you can state despite your resistance , your willingness to see the spiritual innocence, the light in the soul of one who has harmed you, you have begin the journey to an un shakeable place. by Marianne Williamson Forgiveness..so often neglected or underrated, [...]
Courtesy of The CBS Sunday Morning show, this is the best 2 minutes and 41 seconds way to spend your day today. The setting: a basketball coach, a team manager, the team, an opposing team player and an auditorium filled with respect and adulation. The best drama and INSPIRATION you can get in under three [...]
Yes this is me! Let me start by saying I am not sport minded or an athlete or a risk taker or even coordinated for that matter! But for the last five years I have been going mountain snowmobiling. It is not trail riding. Mountain snowmobiling is off trail, balancing yourself and using your body [...]
Most Americans take pride in their ability to accomplish much without asking for help. I confess, I am one of these. But a recent move from a three-story home to a 1,800-square-foot apartment has broken down my resolve. I’ve had to ask for help over and over again. And I’ve discovered a few things along [...]
Something I heard from two different people this week was, “I know you’re usually late,” said after I was waiting for them and now they’re apologizing for being late. Ugh, I didn’t like hearing that, however, there’s no denying it. I think it is rude to be late when you have a set time that [...]
I spent several years as a lifeguard when I was a teen and young adult; one of the cardinal rules of guarding is not to risk your own life to save the life of another. What good would it do to add to a dangerous situation by putting yourself at risk too? Life-guarding and parenting [...]
