Practical ways to fight depression

October 3, 2025
How to Fight Depression: A Compassionate Guide for the Journey Depression isn’t just sadness. It’s a heavy fog that can roll into our lives and cloud everything we see, touch, and feel. It’s not weakness. It’s not a flaw. It’s an illness—and it’s one many of us face, especially as...

Faith in action

December 2, 2009
Faith is a funny thing.I have friends who walk through serious life trials and tribulations with the utmost faith that everything will be ok.And it usually is.It's...

Women’s health: it’s complicated

December 2, 2009
Let's go back a few weeks to when I was all discombobulated about my mammogram and women's health exam, almost three years late because my GYN retired.I was a little...

Target: the smartest TV commercials on the air

December 1, 2009
This is a great example of branding. You don't even have to see a logo to know immediately whose ad it is.But I still think Target has the smartest commercials. And I...

Were we speaking of doctors?

December 1, 2009

On fun

December 1, 2009

Tap dance or swing?

December 1, 2009
One of my exes used to talk about how people "dance." Not in the "I hope you dance" sense.What he really meant was how they perform for an audience.How they tap-dance...

Everyone needs an appreciative audience

November 30, 2009
We love to swing.The dance, that is.It's been our focus the last few weeks in dance class, bringing back to mind Dick Clark and the American Bandstand, doo wop and other...

Dirty little secrets

November 30, 2009
When you've lived a pretty self-sufficient life, as I and many women have, you tend to take your basic skills for granted. But there is a wide divide between how I've...

God is great

November 29, 2009
My Sunday thoughts today are of my beloved friend, SD. One of my closest friends. For years.A big, healthy, fit, gorgeous man approaching his senior years, he was...

Beautiful things ~ Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

November 29, 2009
My favorite church.The most beautiful I've ever...

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