Grateful to be grateful Gratitude Grateful. How many of you know what it truly means to be grateful? Beyond the superficial ‘Thanks’ we award those who hand us a...
5 Things: Spiritual Wellness for you and for your family It’s the time of year when we think about what we want to fix about ourselves. It’s the time of year we think about big goals and cutting...
Laughter = Just what the doctor ordered I’ve always thought my neighbors were quite nice people. But then they put a password on their Wi-Fi. What did the snail say as he was...
Hush, critic It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. Not truly. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed,...
No, really, you first I think it’s a good time – no, perhaps the best time – for some compassion towards others. There are a lot of angry hate-filled words...
The wolf you feed Perhaps you’ve heard this legend before. Perhaps not, but it is a perfect illustration about mindfulness and tuning in. A legend: An old...
5 Things: Mental and Emotional Wellness for you and for your family It’s the time of year when we think about what we want to fix about ourselves. It’s the time of year we think about big goals and cutting...
It's important: Use your words It happened again. How is it, in this day and age of supposed inter-connectedness and understanding, with months of Black Lives Matter...
Connectedness: (A + B) > C We are, without a doubt, an interesting animal, we humans. Physically, we sports some pretty amazing differences from most other animals....
Tell me about it You know what I am talking about: you ask your kid about his day and you get a shrug or a mumbled monotone one-syllable response, two if...
5 Things: Social Wellness for you and for your family It’s the time of year when we think about what we want to fix about ourselves. It’s the time of year we think about big goals and...
Superhero yourself! So you’ve been on this health kick, and you’ve lost some weight. You’ve been focusing on eating right (yay!!), doing various cardio and...
5 Things: Physical Wellness for you and for your family It’s the time of year when we think about what we want to fix about ourselves. It’s the time of year we think about big goals and...
Well-rounded wheels As we get into the thick of January and the shine of your New Year's Resolutions begin to maybe tarnish a bit, maybe it is time to think...
Beauty, skin, and everything in between Many of us do not take the time to notice and acknowledge how beautiful we are as humans. We may be great lovers of beauty, seeing it in...
Life lessons There are so many things we can change and then there are maybe even more things we need to accept, and move past. We are a mathematical...
Forest bathing You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. —Albert Camus Long before work e-mail and social media...
I believe There is no other year, no other time, that believing in magic has not been as important. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He...
A work in progress As a trailing spouse, since entering the foreign service, and leaving behind my ‘real’ job (the one that I went to university to pursue),...
Good Bones https://youtu.be/oODllqrxrLQ (The Bones, Maren Morris) I spend every November deliberately and publicly (on Facebook) being grateful for...
