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When ever an author encounters the phenomena of a brand new book being released – I understand nearly everyone has a broad spectrum of excitement.  It comes with pleasure and an awesome responsibility.  It’s important to usher a book into the world with care and thoughtfulness.  Just as much as was invested in to the…

Ellen Lambert is a trained Phraseologist in the Radmacher Focus Phrase™ process and she is a regular Blogger on BraveHeart Women.  For my “between friends” feature she’s given me permission to share her celebration of great news in the world of her friends.  Here goes – It has been a pleasure answering my phone this…

may your walls know joy cat cover.pdf (click the line reference if you would like to see the book cover.) What a fascinating experience to see something so old and familiar in an entirely new light. Years ago I wrote a home blessing after returning from a long journey to Ireland.  After writing it, the…

Today is a day that stands dramatically for many people.  The attack on Pearl Harbor has been said by thousands to be a day of Infamy.  Surely in the midst of the struggle and the immediate danger and harm to so many…people were not reflecting on the historical significance that the day would come to…

When I walked Paris for the first time…I understood fully what was meant by only being able to see a place once – with FIRST TIME EYES.  First times create rich and wonderful narratives in people’s lives.  From the monumental first kiss to the fairly ordinary first holiday card of the season.  Things that come…

looking at priorities.tiff I was intensely prepared to scrutinize my priorities.And then I noticed the purple, pearl topped crown which was a gift from a friendmany years ago.  What possessed me to put it on my head?  A desire to lightenthe weight of my day.  The opportunity to introduce a little levity into a very…

LIVE-FC-final-#4.pdf People often ask me what it’s like to get the very first copy of a new book. I will first apologize to parents because I know the delivery of a book is nothing like the delivery of a baby.  Absent any children of my own, my books do feel as if they are my…

It is often said that we are only able to see what we anticipate or expect to see. This is the cover of my personal December journal.  I intend to be open to see the small and large Graces that present themselves.  I am willing to see them – therefore I know I will be…

to see.  This morning I promised myself to live the entire day from my heart.  To quote writer Kathleen Gallagher Everett, “BE KIND – NO EXCEPTIONS” was the motto for this Monday. Live the entire day from my heart. So, as I pulled into my studio parking lot, I was surprised to NOTICE that the…
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