Be the Change You Wish to See in Your Relationship. We all know of relationships that have ended because one party claimed the other had changed and was no longer...Read More
Social Media Drove Me to Figure Out What I Don’t Want! Social media made me think back to my childhood and knowing what you don’t want. As a child, I recall...Read More
Does the Simple Life Exist, and Do We Really Want One? Do you ever picture yourself living in a small cottage or apartment somewhere pretty with mild weather, your favorite person...Read More
Talking to yourself? Choose your words carefully. My little Yorkshire Terrier has been my voiceless conversation partner for most of her fifteen years. With children and husband...Read More
Something Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Wonderful. Maybe it is age, but I feel the pressure to have A Perfect Life is almost inescapable—or at least much...Read More
What Does It Really Mean to Have a Good Attitude? If you had to define the word attitude, would you explain it as a settled state or something flexible? Most...Read More
What the World Needs Now! Growing up, we had a rather quirky neighbor—and I adored her. If women could be clothes, my mother was the...Read More
We Make Time for What’s Important. I can still hear my mother’s voice, her lovely Scottish accent: Jane, you say you’ll get around to it, but...Read More
When You Live at the Tip of Africa, Everywhere Is Far! How a Dinner Party Led us to Emigrate. An elegant dinner party was the catalyst that caused us to emigrate. For years we talked about leaving Cape Town,...Read More
How We Treat Others Is a Measure of Who We Are. Covid broke our humanity. Covid crushed our compassion. Our treatment of each other has reached a low point. Possibly true,...Read More
Embrace the Blank Page. Each night we go to sleep with different thoughts running through our heads. Sometimes, we look back on the day...Read More
Don’t Agonize. Organize! These last few years have left many feeling unmoored. Months passed when no one really seemed to know what was...Read More
You Deserve to Take a Rest. You Don’t Have to Earn It. We have all typed, texted, or said, “enjoy your well-earned rest,” to someone about to take a vacation or start...Read More
Why Did I Take So Long to Figure Out This Stuff? With the typical arrogance of youth, in my teens, I assumed most of life’s lessons would be learned by the...Read More
Why Do We Keep Postponing Our Happiness? I can’t imagine there is a single adult on this earth who hasn’t at one time or another told themselves...Read More
There Is Still Time to End the Year Strong! Christmas is right around the corner, and your To-Do list seems to have taken on a life of its own....Read More
Stop Taking Everything So Personally! Please tell me I am not the only one. Who else has noticed a trend in people taking every single...Read More
You Win Some. You Learn Some. Most people have heard the expression, you win some, you lose some. Of course, it is only trotted out after...Read More
Don’t Count the Days. Make the Days Count. I was barely nine years old when I fell in love with calendars. Not only did they come with postcard-perfect...Read More
We Are Raising the Kind of Children Employers Loathe. I think we can all admit to grabbing our phones in the middle of a conversation in order to look...Read More
How the Simple Phrase, Be Where Your Feet Are, Focused My Present Moment Awareness. I was rushing around my kitchen when I first heard the expression bleating out of the TV. A simple mindfulness...Read More
How My Lofty Goals for Summer Melted Away like an Ice Cream on a Hot Day. When I stepped back from my weekly blog posts, it was with the goal of freeing up some time during...Read More
The Cult of Youth: Where Have All the Older Women Gone? Each week when I prep my blog, I spend time hunting down images that reflect the topic. However, I dread...Read More
The Lessons Traveling Teaches Us. Why You Should Travel with Your Children. It was the first time I ever felt small, insignificant. I was sixteen and traveling through Europe with my parents. ...Read More
The Beauty of Sawubona and the Power of Acknowledging Others. The stores were beckoning, and they drew me in with their tantalizing array of bright shiny objects. Giddy with excitement,...Read More
Give Others the Benefit of the Doubt, It’ll Make You Happier! Do you find it easy to give other people the benefit of the doubt? What does it even mean to...Read More
Changing Your Viewpoint Can Make You Happier! Last week I heard a quote: If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. I...Read More
Earth Day Makes We Want to Yell at People! Yesterday was Earth Day, the 51st celebration of this important event. And, as in previous years, I wished I could meet...Read More
This Stuff Is Sloshing Around Everywhere! Over the last ten days, I have begun venturing out into the world. In the last year, I only went...Read More
Drink In the Precious Moments Before It Is Too Late. Over my years as a full-time mom, I spent my fair share of hours in coffee shops. Then, years later,...Read More
