Four powerful words “I’ve Never Loved You”
“I’ve never loved you!” Four powerful words from an indignant three year old fighting sleep. “Have a good nap, sweetheart!” I reply. I look back at this decades old memory…
Word of the Week: Broken
If someone talks to me when I’m not wearing my glasses I feel as though my hearing is broken. There is a fog that rolls in leaving me lost without…
Watch to Learn
I love to ‘watch to learn’ from the choices of other people. My mother taught me, “it’s always better to learn from someone else’s skinned knee instead of your own.”…
3 Goals for 2018
Wonder Woman inspired me when we were together over the holidays! She ran down the hill singing at the top of her lungs, “And no one knows how far it…
Word of the Week: Understanding
As I was out for my walk this morning I meditated on the word ‘Courage”. As I got close to a house that is under construction I could see that…
Word of the Week: Relearning
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ~George Orwell, 1984 Looking around the international airport in Moscow, Russia, I watched a clock strike…
Eyes of Compassion
Head tilted back with sunglasses balanced on his upper lip appeared to be a new game he’d just discovered. A nudge and a sharp look from his sister and immediately…
Lessons Learned From Looking Back
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.” These words of Victor Hugo came to mind today as I was working on a new…