Fight the stigma of depression and mental illness

August 13, 2014
Whether you know it or not, mental illness has touched your life. Someone in your circle has a mental illness. You may not know it, but they do. They know it all too...

Pray that peace take root in our troubled world

August 12, 2014
Pray for Peace I must interrupt regularly scheduled programming because the world has gone mad once again and terrorists of all flavors are running rampant, many in the...

Buddha says “Tilt your head back and laugh at the sky...

August 11, 2014
The Buddha sits in our back garden, presiding over the hummingbirds, butterflies, lizards and yes, even little Riley. Buddha means awakened one or enlightened one....

Ebola virus and protective neurosis

August 10, 2014
I'm a world class neurotic, the kind who pulls out the hand sanitizer after the sign of peace at Mass. The kind who wipes the cart handles off at the grocery store....

Not the stuff of romance

August 9, 2014
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you. "The heart wants what the heart wants" is a truism that's driven countless romance novels, because we can all...

Shine on!

August 8, 2014
Look. There's a lot of pain in the world and a whole bunch of it is caused by how people treat one another. We pay lip service to the Golden Rule, but how often do we...

Grammar bitch talks grammar errors

August 7, 2014
Grammar errors. Read enough Facebook posts and even blogs and the grammar makes your eyes burn. I am not exactly the grammar police, but I have to admit: I do judge....

Everything’s got a price

August 5, 2014
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau Everything is a tradeoff. Everything. If you want to make buckets of money,...

Paging Marcus Welby, MD to our health care system

August 4, 2014
Where do I even begin? I'm certain every one of you has their own family health care horror story and many actually horrific rather than annoying, as mine was. I mean, I...

Eight must-packs for any vacation

August 3, 2014
Whether it’s a road trip or a vacation across the world, there are a few things you might not think of packing  that will absolutely come in handy when you’re...

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