What to do when the world feels like it’s spinning out of contro...

November 13, 2025
out-of-control
I find it hard to cope when the world feels like it's out of control. Lately, I’ve had moments when it all just feels like too much. Maybe you have, too. The headlines keep coming, the pace of life doesn’t slow, and suddenly it feels as if the ground beneath us is tilting, shifting,...
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8 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Inspiration

How do you mend a broken heart?

February 18, 2025
broken-heart
"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...
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3 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Spirituality

How to come from the heart in these dark times

February 14, 2025
heart-centered
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...
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7 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Inspiration

A How-To Guide for Getting Older

February 11, 2025
getting-older
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...
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8 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

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"...
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12 Comments · Blog, Opinion

The terrifying power of Chat GPT

February 4, 2025
Chat GPT
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,...
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9 Comments · Blog, Opinion

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...
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2 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Stylin', Travel

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...
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The political incorrectness of being “color-blindR

January 21, 2025
color-blind
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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10 Comments · Inspiration, Opinion

How you can help victims of the southern California fires

January 11, 2025
California-fires
The devastation wrought by this winter's California fires is horrific. The community and organizations across the globe immediately reached out to help, but they...
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How to do the scary thing: like move to the South of France

January 6, 2025
do-the-scary-thing
No, not me. Not that I'm unfamiliar with do the scary thing. So many of us wish we could live abroad. Especially these days. So sharing a great blog post from my...
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12 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Travel

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