Because we Homo sapiens have a brain that is large enough to imagine illusions of grandeur, as individuals, we tend to overly inflate the significance of our own existence. And while it is wildly inconceivable for most of us, some of us literally...
“Fear” the emotion which Franklin D. Roosevelt declared is “the only thing we have to fear” has always been used as a political tactic. In fact, it is the favorite psychological tool of despots, dictators, religious cult leaders and self-proclaimed...
America. Why would anyone debate whether this is “Trump’s America” or “Biden’s America”? No single human being owns our collective experience of this amazing land of the free, nor will one person ever be allowed to define who we are. No matter who...
Three weeks ago my husband and I moved into hopefully what will be our forever home. While we had a pretty detailed “must have” list – at the top of our priorities was finding a place with beautiful tree-filled surroundings. At this point in our...
The gullible make the perfect prey for a manipulative narcissist. Like a cat toying with a mouse, every move is calculated to make the target squirm and squeal. All is fun and games until the final pounce when the exhausted mouse becomes food. But...
Today, I thought about the enormous pain we go through when we lose someone close to us – when we say goodbye to our Dad or Mom or suffer the most unthinkable profound loss of a child or kiss our best friend on the cheek as they absorb their last...
Your eyes open to greet a brand new day. Choice You get to choose from the first breath you draw in, how you want to live this day. Perspective What do you believe and why? Dark clouds or skies of blue, isn’t the sun always shining up above whether...
You only have to spend a few moments perusing your Facebook newsfeed to observe the heightened reactive state many of us are living in. Post a picture of Obama or Trump and watch the nuclear explosion of verbal combat hold your personal page hostage...
What a crazy time! Our entire world combatting a lethal virus, the flames of culture wars being ignited daily, chaos and mayhem filling our cities and civil unrest dominating our nightly news stories . . . the relentless pelting of our souls can be...
My husband was in Europe. At 3:30 a.m. the security alarm went off in my home. We set it every night after locking our doors but we never linked it to an actual security company. So the next step was up to me. Heart pounding out of my chest and mind...