Have you seen this incredible video? It’s about an amazing man, Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved many Czechoslovakian Jewish children during World War II. When he was honored on an English television show 50 years later, to his surprise 80 of those children who had grown into adults, stood up and gave thanks for his…

Last Sunday morning I was looking through Parade magazine, which usually takes me a couple of minutes. But Sunday I ran across their cover story titled “Anything Is Possible!” Instant inspiration. Did you see it?  Five people are highlighted for the difference they are making in the world. These are average folks who decided that the…

This week when I learned that Leonard Nimoy had died I was immediately reminded of a day in the 60s when I heard him on an afternoon talk show reading this wonderful prose poem. At the time it was thought to have been written in the 1600s because it had been included in a book of…

These 18 Rules for Life are often attributed to the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, but they  are actually adapted from Life’s Little Instruction Book, by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., a book of advice from a father to his son as he goes off to college. These rules work for everyone, no matter what…

Sing along with me… “All you need is love, la, la, la, la, la. All you need is love, la, la, la, la, la. All you need is love, love, love is all you need.” These are some of the best known song lyrics in the world — thank you Beatles! — and they are…

Becoming a goddess doesn’t require any degrees of higher education or formal training of any kind. Becoming a goddess only requires a big heart and a passionate spirit. Take for example Jim Russ and his daughter Amber. Amber lived in a wheel chair here in Sarasota for all of her brief life of 21 years due to…

When I read this inspirational article, “The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan,” over MLK weekend, I was deeply moved. Some of us still remember that tense time in the fall of 1957 when 9 courageous black kids integrated Central High School in Little Rock. It may be hard to believe today that the governor of…

Have you read the book, Black Like Me? A best seller in the 60s, it was a big influence in many lives, including my own, for becoming aware of the racism in our society. Black Like Me was written in 1961 by John Howard Griffin, who artificially changed his skin color from white to black…

In my Sunday Inspirations I like to highlight people who are especially inspiring, people who, like the women in my Goddesses series, have the courage to overcome daunting obstacles in their lives and the compassion to reach out and help others who struggle for respect and survival. This is the story of a young man,…