Last week, I backed out of my garage wearing my black mask, heavy winter coat, and bright red mittens to grab some last-minute gifts for Christmas on this Covid-19 year. I celebrate without the religious fuss. Inside the store, as I tried to social-distance while perusing the aisles full of holiday hoopla, I remembered past…
Read MoreHappy Holidays to My Readers
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” – Virginia Woolf As a thinker and writer, I appreciate you, my readers, IMMENSELY. A writer must write; a writer is a creator full of more ideas than they can express. A writer…
Read More10 Life-Changing Things I Learned from the Holiday Season
Another holiday season is upon us. It is here whether we celebrate or not or whether we want it to be here or not. The choice is ours to participate in it or to hide under a rock from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. I have to admit I have been tempted to do the…
Read MoreCreative Goal Setting for the New Year: How to Set Goals That You Will Accomplish
It’s that time again – the end of the year and the beginning of a new one. The new year beckons us to start fresh, to bring in something new, to change something for the better, to be excited about a possible change, and to make new commitments to ourselves and to others. Even though…
Read MoreEnding Abuse This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a reflective and special time for me. It will always be because there was a time when I was not so thankful for my life. Years ago during one Thanksgiving season, I left an abusive relationship. It was one of the most courageous steps I’ve ever taken to save myself, my spirit, and…
Read MoreReflecting on Mom and Being a Mom on Mother’s Day
It is an atypical, gloomy Mother’s Day in my part of the world in Denver today, but I’m feeling content and peaceful. I am a mother; I have a precious child that I have been given to help walk through life to the best of my ability. However, today, like any other Mother’s Day, I…
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