On Gratitude and Dwelling in Possibility
Recently, I went to an outdoor concert with some friends. Mavis Staples, a fabulous gospel singer in her seventies, was the headliner. There was no formal …
Topic: Life Help
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Add Self-Respect to Your Repertoire
With self-respect as your guidepost, many relationship dilemmas, crossroads, emotional hurt, sadness and anguish, are either avoidable, shorter lived, and will …
Have you Evolved Today?
Too many years of the rhythm of the school year and it is ingrained in me to see September as sort of an interim start of a new year, at least as far as most …
Pacing Through Ten Months of Variety
The sales flyers and emails are arriving, clothing and office supply stores display promotional prices on school year basics, bookstores have teachers’ …
Senior Financial Abuse: Identifying the Signs of Elderly Financial Exploitation
A recent episode of CNBC’s American Greed highlights the rags to riches back to rags story of former basketball star Rumeal Robinson. When Robinson turned …
New Ways To View Therapy
The most valuable way to decide whether therapy would be useful for you is to know your own central reason for retaining a therapist. Among your basic reasons …
Caps Off to the Graduate!
Caps are flying everywhere, and graduates are excited, and scared at the same time. They are moving on to the next phase of their lives. Some will be …
Graduate To Yourself
In case you will be at a graduation ceremony and feel restless while waiting to hear the name of your graduate, here is a meaningful way to pass the time. …
Unconditional Love
I moved away from home at 19! Actually, they moved away from me. Have 8 younger siblings and after my first year of college, my family moved half way across …
Parenting Other People’s Children
My mother was an extraordinarily patient woman as is my daughter with her three young kids. Me, not so much! I think I was a great mom raising my daughters …