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...

The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
I have a god complex. I admit it. I think I know what's best and --if it's something that really matters--- I am not going to be shy about trying to make it...

Have you found effective coping strategies for this new yea

February 19, 2025
Given the state of our world, checking in seems to be appropriate. How are we all doing? How are we coping?  And what coping strategies work (or don't work) for...

How do you mend a broken heart?

February 18, 2025
"Love even when it means searching for your heart knowing it may cower and can be broken sometimes feeling it will mend. Knowing it will mend." My...

How to come from the heart in these dark times

February 14, 2025
These are difficult days for many of us. Don't know about you, but my soul needs some calming. I was thinking that a heart-centered meditation might be just...

A How-To Guide for Getting Older

February 11, 2025
Getting older comes upon us suddenly. Creeping up on little cat's feet, you might say. With apologies to poet Carl Sandberg. One day the future looks endless and...

How dangerous is Chat GPT?

February 5, 2025
Continuing where I left off with yesterday's post, in which I had asked Chat GPT to write a blog post for me: Imagine a world where all writing and the "thinking"...

The terrifying power of Chat GPT

February 4, 2025
A few years ago a friend suggested I let AI write my blog. A non-writer friend. Who obviously had no idea that writing for writers is a means of self expression,...

How to use fashion, food, fiesta and family as coping mech...

February 2, 2025
I'm back east, in snowy western New York state. Haven't seen a cardinal yet, but sure would like to....they represent hope during turmoil. But never fear: Our...

Why the intense yearning for the old days as we age?

January 28, 2025
What is it about this age the brings up a kind of nostalgic sorrow, that deep, intense yearning for the old days? That kind of homesickness that goes beyond...

The political incorrectness of being “color-blindR

January 21, 2025
Fair warning: You might consider this post politically incorrect. My doctor's longtime assistant was preparing to give me a flu shot as we chatted away about a...

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