Dealing With (Road) Blocks
Writers often experience the infamous writers´block, which is perfectly understandable, and almost expected. I would be very skeptical if an author told me that they had never experience such a…
Category: Battling depression
Re-charging Soul Batteries
It isn’t just the obvious signs of flowers and fresh leaves all over the place, but the increased noise of the birds and water fowl is music to my ears.…
Courage and Discipline
If you are a parent with a child in their early 20s, you most certainly had to watch, as I did, Disney´s Mulan several times over, ad nauseam. Strangely enough,…
What Scissors Can´t Fix, Hairspray Will!
I am in my 50s, recently divorced, starting life over from scratch, courageous as hell, and defiant as can be. I go against every grain I have lived by and…
Spring Cleaning
It is a bit of a cliche title and to be honest, I never really took the concept seriously until this year. It has always baffled me why the term…
In Love All Over Again
There is a new presence in my life that has made all the difference, and I have been completely swept off my feet. After weeks of pain, insomnia, restlessness, and…
Nibbles of Mindfulness
On my way to the bus stop yesterday I had the ultimate pleasure of enjoying the first frosty morning of the spring equinox. In India I would have been celebrating…
The Gift of Unbreakable Faith
The Gospel readings this past week have been leading up to the Transfiguration of Christ, with the underlying thread among all the readings “who do you say I am?” Throughout…
