To Raffi, With Love

To Raffi, With Love

  Dearest Raffi, I wanted to write to you today to share my gratitude for your incredible talent, generosity, and humility, but most of all, your ability to connect so deeply with the hearts of children and adults alike. Today is my son Stephen’s birthday. He...
Tether Yourself to Life with Gratitude

Tether Yourself to Life with Gratitude

A New Chapter for JOLT, Strong Wise Women and Me I’m getting ready to launch the new look and feel for my work. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing this for eleven years. Looking back, I’m not sure how this happened. I have always been under the impression that...

The Importance of Second Chances and Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain~ When I was younger, I felt that I was very good at reading people and situations.  I trusted my first impressions.  And they stuck; meaning if you didn’t make a good...

Taking the Leap…It’s Book Launch Day

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.  ~Henry Miller~ Available on Amazon Leap Day.  That extra day smooshed into the end of February.  I like to look at it as having an extra 24 hours to be thankful....

Are you Living Your Life Like Punxsutawney Phil?

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? ~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Well Happy Groundhog Day! This is the day each year that we gaze towards a nervous rodent in a hole to predict the future. According...