“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” -author unknown Has this happened to you? Have you been stuck reading and re-reading a certain chapter in your life? I suspect it’s happened to all of us a multitude of times. As an author, the last thing I want…

I really love to find stories about individuals or groups who are making a difference by coming up with ingenious and effective ideas. Recently I ran across an article in our local Sarasota paper that renewed my faith in humanity. New Life Village is a community of retired people in Tampa, Florida, who volunteer to…

“My message to young girls is that you can do much more than you ever can imagine. The only way you can imagine it is to do it. To take the first step. And if you take the first step, you can then take three steps. And then you can take 10. And someday maybe…

A tomb is no place to stay, Be it a cave in the Judaean hills Or the dark cavern of the spirit. A tomb is no place to stay When fresh grass rolls away the stone of winter cold And valiant flowers burst their way to warmth and light. A tomb is no place to…

  Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.…

“We are much involved, all of us, with questions about things that matter a good deal today but will be forgotten by this time tomorrow — the immediate wheres and whens and hows that face us daily at home and at work — but at the same time we tend to lose track of the…

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius As I’ve mentioned in the past, one of my favorite blogs is “Barking Up the Wrong Tree” by Eric Barker. He writes well-researched essays  that I find helpful. A recent email I received– 5…

  “After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool…

We’re taking this day to spend time in Mother Nature, so why not do the same? I can’t think of anything more inspiring. Meantime I wish you a wonderfully inspiring Sunday.

  I hope you didn’t miss the birthday last week of one of my — and my children’s — favorite all-time writers, Dr. Seuss. What joy and wisdom he has brought into the lives of so many young people, as well as adults. I believe I’ve read every one of his books many times over…