The challenges of parenting today

June 29, 2026
parenting
I can't think of anything harder than parenting today. I don't have children of my own, but I clearly see the challenges in raising them today. It must feel like like trying to raise a human in a house with no walls and a thousand open windows. Your kids hear every voice and are exposed to every...
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1 Comments · Healthy Living, Inspiration

It really IS all about the consequences

December 27, 2022
consequences
I haven't always made the best decisions in my life. Not the best decisions for me OR the best decisions, period. So let me make that perfectly clear. Also, I do...
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8 Comments · Opinion, Spirituality

May holiday spirit be with you all year round

December 24, 2022
holiday-spirit
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...
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6 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Blog, Christmas

Institutional gaslighting: The way it works

December 19, 2022
Harry-Meghan
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...
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18 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Reviews

Thoughts about kindness

December 13, 2022
about-kindness
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...
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5 Comments · Blog

Retro holiday reminiscences & our favorite Boomers wei...

December 12, 2022
retro-Christmas
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...
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12 Comments · Blog

The gold-burnished real reality

December 6, 2022
reality
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...
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6 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Reviews

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

December 2, 2022
random-act-of-kindness
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...
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6 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Blog

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

November 30, 2022
social-media-fast
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...
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6 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

How we started Christmas in London

November 25, 2022
Christmas-in-Londo
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...
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16 Comments · Blog, Theatre, Travel

Words to live by that never go out of date

November 22, 2022
words-to-live-by
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...
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6 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

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