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If fear weren’t so devastating, it would be fascinating. It slips in to fill empty places, the way rainwater fills a ditch and dust bunnies find homes under furniture. It’s peddled like a street vendor’s wares, and we buy it in bulk, all the while protesting that we don’t want it, that it ought to…

I’ve been doing some research on the early years of the Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship and how its pioneers discovered a spiritual program of recovery that has shown itself applicable to all sorts of addictions and various besetments of humanity. Before AA existed as an entity of its own, its founders and their first proteges were…

I made a new friend on Saturday. M. (I won’t use her name because I haven’t asked her) came to the writers’ group I’m a part of. It turns out she heard me speak at a church a while back, and we have things in common, and we ended up having lunch. I realized that…

Fear is running rampant in our country and our world. Every person who refuses to buy into the terror puts out a different energy. We’ll never overcome what we’re faced with if we can’t get the fear out of the way. 1.    Stop watching television – the news anyway. I’m not saying to put your…

Paul Tenaglia, the minister of my church, Unity Church of NYC, is a former actor and director with a strong sense of theater that he brings to Sunday mornings. Yesterday, he outdid himself. His topic was “One Singular Sensation: Metaphysics of A Chorus Line.” He told us how, as a 19-year-old actor, he showed up…

Here’s an exercise for more self-knowledge and self-appreciation. It’s called “Playing Favorites.” To do it, pretend that you’re Sister Maria from The Sound of Music you ask yourself, “What is my favorite thing?” Then list everything you can think of in every area of life. Coming up with 100 is not excessive. Remember, these are…

Several years ago, I loaned an acquaintance some money. It was supposed to have been a secured loan, with the collateral of some art photographs, but he never got around to getting the pictures to me, and he never got around the paying back the money. I stopped seeing him in our regular haunts and…

Happy March 4th! It may be a work day, but it’s a holiday, too, the day on which we’re invited to march forth into the rest of our year, the rest of our lives. I learned about March 4th some years ago when my friend Deborah Shouse (pictured here) — journalist, author, storyteller, Alzheimer’s activist,…

It’s the middle of winter. The economy is acting as if it ought to be committed. People aren’t as happy as they were a year ago, and they’re more afraid. But it is not our responsibility to join the gloom parade. These are my top 10 ways for putting on a happy face and having…

In January, HealthyLife.net, where I do my monthly radio show, did this interview. I thought you’d like to read it. I’m also writing my newsletter today, “The Charmed Monday Minute.” If you’d like to receive it, you can subscribe on my site. Host of the Month Interview:PJ Grimes Interviews Victoria Moran HL- What is a…
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