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…

We had a terrible scare over the weekend with our 13 (plus or minus) year old golden, Roxie. We rescued her 11 years ago, and have loved her and helped her overcome some serious emotional issues stemming from one abusive home and a second neglectful home. She finally learned to trust us and could not…

Before I get to the trials and tribulations of writing a novel and the many addictive challenges encountered along the way, I wanted to share, again, some beautiful Hawaiian thoughts to live by. If only we were evolved enough to see the wisdom in practicing these amazingly simple concepts. Every day. All we have to…

Energy, energy. Everywhere energy. This morning I got up at sunrise and took a long hike (okay, partly because I actually got lost on the trails) and then hiked up to the Boynton Vista Vortex, also known as Kachina Woman. It was early, about 6:30, and I had the vortex almost all to myself. There…

…what I know now… It’s a terrible thing to second guess your decisions in life, especially when it concerns removing vital body parts, such as your breasts. I am sharing my thoughts and concerns about lumpectomy vs. mastectomy (double) because I have been faced with this dilemma recently, three years after my diagnosis, and have…