Choices, roles and other mysteries…

choices via wholelifediets.com

These days the word “choice” has a bad rap. It can only mean that we are on one side of a heated debate about women’s health. This blog is NOT about that choice, so please don’t feel like you must run for cover, find a picket sign, or shout “You go girl”! This piece is about the choices… [Continue Reading]

Waiting for a miracle….

Set your intention via httpfrugivoremag.com

Waiting for a miracle… The definition of a miracle is a surprising and welcomed event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine; a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment . I think that miracles happen every day. I know there was a time that I… [Continue Reading]

Is school making your child crazy?

Boy-Sitting-Alone via treatmenttalk.org

Is school making your child crazy? “The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.” Susan Cain, QUIET For the parent of a child who is being bullied, the above quote must be especially poignant…that is,… [Continue Reading]

Be prepared…

Thinking via skills-forlife.blogspot

While growing up in Trinidad, West Indies, I was a Girl Guide. I was a troop leader and I guess, in hindsight I did learn a few things that have stuck. The most important thing I learned was to BE PREPARED! For what? For what life brings. Now it does not always work out that… [Continue Reading]

Sick to my stomach…

Because ice cream makes everything better via brainbreaking.wordpress

Last night I sacrificed something I really wanted to do that was good for me, so I could go and have dinner with an angry, frustrated person. I wanted to make him less angry by doing what he wanted to do. At first I had said no, but he walked off with anger seeping from… [Continue Reading]

The Gift of Understanding Jokes…

women-laughing via 9ways.gloriafeldt

At first glance, this title seems simple enough. Of course you can understand a joke. You crack up at Last Comic Standing and you get satire and you can deliver a nice zinger whenever you wish. Or do you? Can you? I just finished Priscilla Gilman’s The Anti-Romantic Child, and I have come to appreciate the… [Continue Reading]

Am I fired?

Truth-is-Within-You via tinaferguson.com

A few weeks ago I received an email from someone I barely knew regarding my classes in which she has never attended. Her information came from some of those who had taken my class. These people had some sensitive nerves touched and decided their pain was my fault! The email was mean spirited and made accusations that… [Continue Reading]