During a hospice visit I overheard the most beautiful conversation of love.

"It is not happiness that makes us grateful; it’s gratefulness that makes us happy.” - David Steindl-Rast All of us would love to live...

Lessons come to us when we most need to learn them, often in surprising ways. I learned a few things recently from one of my favorite...

This week, in the book and on social media, we've been talking a lot about staying in the present moment to feel better and to live...

No matter what you’ve done or left undone, no matter who you’ve hurt or who hurt you, no matter how it might seem like an exercise in...

Early this morning I opened the back door to look around. I noticed the tree limb that was broken by the bird feeder. Under the overgrown...

One of my writing heroes, Sarah Ban Breathnach, writes in her daybook Simple Abundance, that she has never been turned down when asking...

This morning I share with you a beautiful morning prayer, along with heartfelt wishes that your day unfolds with calm joy and hopeful...

Today, let's take a minute and slow down a little. Notice more. Breathe it all in. Give thanks. We are rich with gifts, right where we...

“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” From one of my heroes, Maya Angelou, this beloved quote illustrates how she...

A friend called yesterday and shared how she was suffering from daily anxiety and panic attacks. She was the third person to relay a...

If you woke up today feeling less than beautiful, remember, that no matter what is going on with you, the soul is always beautiful and...

I wake at dawn, wrap in a blanket and head out to soak in the last sights and sounds rising up from this sleepy, hallowed ground. Today...

This morning I wrap in a blanket and pad out the back door to be with the sunrise. The early birds begin in the dark with tentative melodie