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The Dream I Fulfilled Ten Years Ago Today

Ten years ago today I fulfilled a dream. I became a published author. From the time I was a little girl, I found solace in writing. I was very shy – something people who meet me today, refuse to believe but I assure you was true. Back then it was easier for me to express […]

Twenty Years Later – What I Will Never Forget – Nor Should I

I am sitting here with a view of lower Manhattan, the place where the Twin Towers once stood and I try to imagine as I have many times since I moved across the Hudson what it must have been to stand in this spot on 9/11, that fateful day, twenty years ago. The city feels […]

How Getting on a Plane for the First Time Since the Pandemic Helped Me to Gain Perspective

There was a time when this all came easily to me, but not this time. This time I had not been on a plane in almost two years, since before the pandemic began. This time not only was I out of practice, I was skeptical. Should I even risk it? What if I was on […]

If You Want To Create Change, Start With Gratitude

Practicing gratitude came later to me in life. Not that I was raised to be ungrateful. I wasn’t. I was a fussy eater as a child – something I clearly outgrew. If I didn’t want to finish all the food on my plate at dinner – which was pretty much all the time, I was […]

I Can’t Remember What Last Mother’s Day Was Like

I can’t remember what last Mother’s Day was like. There is nothing in my journal about it. I know the lockdown was starting to wear on us all, especially so on my mother. She watched too much television, never missing the countless interruptions reporting the death toll from Covid and advice on what to do to […]