15 Empowering Things to Tell Your Kids (and Yourself)
In the summer of 2012, I was cracking up (not in a good way). I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I did both. Often. And intensely. Things…
Anger Management
Ever feel so angry you want to destroy some/thing/one/place? I do. It’s rare. But it happens. I respond to injustice with that level of anger. I am incensed when someone/somemany…
O Canada In Birthday Poetry
O Canada! A bright red cardinal sings Happy Birthday In morning mist.
10 Cool Lists of 10 Cool Things to Love
It’s no secret that, besides this soon-to-be-amazing personal blog, I also run an already amazing (she writes none-too-modestly) website not surprisingly called AmazingWomenRock.com, which has, over the last five years,…
Life Breaks My Heart
Life breaks my heart. There it is land-sliding Down my lover’s shoulders When we discover death in the backyard. Life dissolves my heart. There it is flowing in the river Of…
See me?
I write. I write a play. A book. A blog post. A dozen blog posts. Hundreds of blog posts. Articles and particles, bits and pieces, nuts and bolts. A lifetime. I…
breathless
There’s an old new-age adage that goes something like this: “Don’t measure your life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.” Life…
What keeps us going?
Love and prayers going out to Oklahoma, Syria, Palestine, the whole of Africa, pretty much all of South America as well. Central America too. Ummm. Pakistan. Afghanistan. In fact, all…
Hangin’ on & hangin’ in
I’m having one of those days. I’m just managing to hang on. By a thread. Here’s to everyone else out there who is doing the same. We are not alone….