Burnout, Grief, Donkeys and Rainbows

Those who know me know me as someone who is perpetually happy and optimistic. I wasn’t always that way, but have thankfully cultivated that attitude over a lifetime. I have experienced many many losses in my lifetime and have learned more about grief, burnout, depression, etc in the last 6 months than I ever thought [...]

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Live Each Day to the Fullest

This is one of my all time favorite poems. Live each day to the fullest, by SH Payer I don’t read a lot of poetry, but this one has stayed with me, and lifted me up many times over the years. I hope that it will do the same for you. Live Each Day to [...]

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Invasion of The Hope Snatchers

We all know people who some would call “pollyanna” and others that would be [kindly] labeled ‘negative nellies’. There are, of course a whole host of others in between (drama queens, Debbie downer, etc). I fall on the higher end of the ‘positive’ spectrum, most of the time, but I didn’t used to. Contrary to [...]

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What We Can Learn From an 11 year old

My 11 year old son is a “toe-walker”. Simply put, he walks on his toes (on the balls of his feet) instead of with his feet flat on the ground. All children do when they first start walking, but they “are supposed to stop” around age 2. When he was in preschool, his teacher expressed [...]

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I am Thankful for Gratitude!

This time of year we all reflect on what we are thankful for. Even though many are facing challenging times, the luckiest of us have the capacity to be thankful. Few however, know how incredibly powerful gratitude can be. Gratitude is nature’s greatest equalizer. No matter who you are, how much you have, where you [...]

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