Can we hold differences gently when hatred burns?

October 17, 2025
Someone recently said to another, "Thank you for holding our differences with such gentleness." Thing is, I know people who feel hatred and a desire to harm others that it's almost impossible. Who am I kidding? It IS impossible. Fully impossible. Gentleness has its limits We like to...

May holiday spirit be with you all year round

December 24, 2022
I've had reason to think long and hard about holiday spirit this season and even to have a discussion about it with a dear friend. So here's what I want to say: We...

Institutional gaslighting: The way it works

December 19, 2022
You may or may not know that I had a 30+ year career in public relations, much of it involving high profile people or public companies seeking positive media...

Thoughts about kindness

December 13, 2022
Having had about all I can take with the vitriol and unkindness shown on social media, I've significantly reduced the amount of time I spend there. Why is it so hard to...

Retro holiday reminiscences & our favorite Boomers wei...

December 12, 2022
I love this retro holiday scene that has to be familiar to some of us early Baby Boomer because it looks like a card from a bygone era, doesn't it? And oh, how I long...

The gold-burnished real reality

December 6, 2022
Like an anthropologist, I have watched the "Real" Housewives for insight into worlds I know very little about. And for a while, in the early days, that very strange...

Here’s a simple random act of kindness that helps mak...

December 2, 2022
Maybe it's the first holiday season without a loved one. Or they've got horrible chronic pain.  Or a tough diagnosis must be faced. Some people we know are...

Why rush to judgment when you could take a social media fas...

November 30, 2022
Back in August I saw a social media post in which someone said something like: Alex is no Rachel Maddow. She is not as good. She was a bad choice at MSNBC. I don't...

How we started Christmas in London

November 25, 2022
Christmas in London has begun! It was a week of cold-ish weather, some rain --and pretty spectacular Christmas decorations. London was alight with festive holiday...

Words to live by that never go out of date

November 22, 2022
I found advice for clients I wrote 22 years ago (!!)  and realized that they were words to live by that apply today-- and will probably apply as long as there are...

How to recognize your own true nature

November 15, 2022
So many of us stumble around life with the feeling that we're not yet in our element. We haven't founded our passion. We're...discontented. That's because we haven't...

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