My Provence alley is done! I just varnished what is now one of my favorite paintings. It evokes the beauty and unadulterated joy I feel when I am in this part of the world. I look forward to being there again SOON! And it will be soon. Sooner than later. We are making a dramatic…

…and again, and again, every day, every way possible to keep my heart and soul from spiraling yet again out of control with all kinds of negative emotions and thoughts of retaliating in an eye-for-an-eye kind of way. Some days it’s soooo hard to demonstrate gratitude by offering compassion and empathy to some of the…

I know, right? It’s back to back blogs, so unlike me. But when inspiration strikes, so must my fingers fly to the keyboard. I have always had extremely strong, and conversely uber sensitive, intuitive powers. They used to scare me. Then they intrigued me, but I rarely trusted to share them for fear of ridicule…

…and more than a little bit baffled. But most of all, I am eternally GRATEFUL! I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart and my soul for reading my blog…I broke 50,000 readers this week. 50K! Wow! I don’t even know who most of you are, but I thank you for reading…

The good (especially the good!), the bad, and the really, really uuuugly. It’s a new year. A chance for a new start in a clean, blank chapter. A chapter full of the promise of joy and laughter and good health. And yet, I have never felt quite so taxed to walk my talk in this…

It was just one year ago yesterday that I had returned home from Provence. Seems more like a decade, really. My travels at the end of last year had begun in Cabo San Lucas to celebrate Thanksgiving with a man whom we had thought was a beloved member of our extended family. We had bestowed…

It’s always so much easier for me to share from the heart when my heart is smiling, not streaming large, crockodile tears. I am in a perfect storm of chaotic challenges, which is regrettably predictable due in some small part to the proverbial expectations/disappointments of the looming holidays. Then there is our business debacle that…

October is a big national awareness month…breast cancer awareness (pink), domestic violence awareness (purple), and yes, bullying prevention (orange). Of course, breast cancer awareness is a topic near and dear to my heart, literally and figuratively. I had a mammogram last week, and opted for the new, high tech HD version. It may or may…

If I didn’t believe it before, or forgot to believe it after life lulled me into a dull complacency, I believe it now and forever more:  FORGIVENESS is my lesson to be learned and practiced. Daily. Hourly. Minutely. Secondly. Never to be relinquished or lapsed, even if righteousness is on my side. Not even for…

As the presidential campaign season starts to heat up at an alarming and vitriolic pace, I am saddened and repulsed and disappointed and disillusioned. Again. In this new millenium, our race, as in the human race, is no further evolved than we were a hundred, five hundred or even thousands of years ago. Nothing seems…