Five Great Tips to Sleep When You Can’t
Ever wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep? Or maybe you just can’t get to sleep to begin with? Me too. Lots. Truth…
10 Things Our Daughters Could Learn From Whitney Houston
Multi-award winning singer and entertainer Whitney Houston was born on this day in 1963.
Escape. Embrace. Or Not. Or Both.
I follow a number of interesting blogs, among them that of TK Coleman, a self-described philosopher whose blog tagline reads: “Ideas are my intoxication. Philosophy is my psychedelic.” In a…
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…
I Had Forgotten All About Tootsie. Until Today.
I cried along with actor Dustin Hoffman in this interview on the driving force behind the movie Tootsie, and why he made it. He SO gets it.
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.
6 powerful ways to make your life more beautiful
The universe whispers in my ear so softly that I sometimes have a hard time deciphering its message. When that happens, I feel lost and confused – as I…
White Maggot and Bumblebee Salad
Every Monday morning for the last eight weeks, eight to 10 of us gathered from nine to noon at the Bibliotheque North Hatley Library to write. Expertly led Carolyn Rowell,…