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When she talks, it feels like a fork scraping against a stainless steel bowl. And she’s a talker. I love our conversations, but honestly, she can be hard to listen to.  And when we do talk, [...]

“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” When we don’t know the answer, we make it up.  If a friend doesn’t call you back right away, if someone gives you an unexpected sideways [...]

How’s your energy today? By that, I don’t mean, “Did you eat your Wheaties?”  I hope you did… and if you didn’t, I hope you ate something of equivalent [...]

I don’t know exactly where I realized it. It was somewhere along the way. Definitely not while I was raising four children, working and getting my degrees. I was too busy then… I [...]

2014 was not an easy year. I would sit at my desk, fingers at my temples vainly massaging at yet another migraine, and think, “Thank God, this year is almost over.”  I would lean [...]

The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman. Zlata Filipović I went to see the Mocking Jay with my daughter last night.  [...]

Have you ever been lost?  You might think that is an odd question as cell phones loaded with GPS  and cars that are programmed to get us from here to there are as common as air.  I suppose we can [...]

I was driving to work.  It was 7:15am on a Tuesday. I had meetings starting at 8:00am and was booked back-to-back for most of the day.  I brought my lunch but couldn’t quite figure out, [...]

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats “Yeats held a lifelong torch for  revolutionary Maud Gonne (born December 21, 1866). Though [...]

You know that kind of heat: you can feel your skin actually sizzling under the sun’s blinding rays.  But you don’t notice.  You don’t notice because your toes are painfully [...]