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That’s the title of my book released exclusively through SimpleTruths.com in February of this year.  I’ve just learned that the title has been in their top ten titles for three months in a row. Today they are offering my book at a 25% discount.  Since it’s an ideal book for graduation and for retirement –…

I remember, a few sizes back, trying several different yoga instructors.  Each instructor gently guided me to the back corner of the room.  I never knew if that was to protect me in my earnest efforts from snickers or to preserve the view shed of the other participants.  In any case the result was the…

Your dreams must grow with you. A friend wrote me after yesterday’s post and said it had never occurred to her that she needed to allow her dreams to grow along with her. Certainly there are fundamental structures in our lives that remain unchanged.  And rightly so. Dreams?  I do not believe they are among…

I’ve just finished reading CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese.  This single sentence, “The tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.”  His whole book weaves around the irony of the cost of an unrealized dream AND the cost of holding a dream too long and then realizing it.  A dream…

The new Princess may have more in common with thousands of American women than is first evident. After all the fuss and flurry of an exceptionally celebrated Royal Wedding…she returns to a small town to fulfill a serious calling, that of an Army wife. An Army Officer’s wife.  It means that her immediate community is…

Miss Albers. Mrs. Burbano. Mrs. Schatz, Mrs. Haygarth, Mr. O’Brien, Ms. Newell, Mr. Hammock, Mrs. Sparks, Mrs.  Schukart, Ms. Disney… Name them.  Go ahead.  Just recollect the teachers that steered you, directed you, challenged you into becoming the WHO that you are today. In this, National Teacher Appreciation Week, absent the opportunity to speak to…

The repercussions of this news will ring throughout the world. I said to my husband last, “This is so very odd to experience such relief and gratitude at someone’s death.”  Such feelings are outside my experience.  I was trained as an Oregon Safe Hunter when I was eleven.  Hunting with my father at twelve, we…

USA.gov/contact/Elected.Shtml Words. Our world’s are built upon the words we choose to use. History is encompassed in Word. The world was created by Word. Lies are perpetrated and wisdom is shared with Words. The impulse to create inhabits the mystical core of an artist and is manifested through form symbols: color, form, line. Words! Language…

Have you seen the bumper sticker that declares, “If you’re not outraged, you are not paying attention?” I’m lucky enough to be associated with many poets. Glenis Redmond among them. She woke me up this morning with her history lesson of life on a plantation. “Show me your papers,” was a common demand. Of a…
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