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Slow Down: Today Is a Gift

“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...

14 Steps to Calm

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

The Beauty Within

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...

Gratitude and Goodbyes

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...

Kindness and the Skunk

A few days ago from the writing window a rustling caught my eye. Heading straight for me was a large, limping skunk with a very puffy...

Starting Over with the Sunrise

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

Tales From Hunters Road

Three weeks ago, I moved from Hunters Road. I lived there for a year and a half between my married years and now. And it was the...