What could possibly be good about grief? An inevitable truth in life is that we will lose someone we love and it will cause us tremendous pain. The death of a loved one sends us into an abyss, adrift and in shock, recovering to a world in which we do not want to live. Grief [...]
Thanksgiving, a holiday focused on gratitude, allows us to reflect on our country's humble beginnings and give thanks for brave voyagers who settled a new country. We give thanks for a magnificent meal and how meaningful that first meal was for those settlers. But it has become more. The act of gratitude has evolved into [...]
On August 31st each year, I begin 12 days of darkness interrupted by one day of happiness. Most of the year I genuinely exist in a content and appreciative state. But on this day, the cloud moves over me and its ghostlike hands reach deep inside, gripping my organs, leaving me gasping for breath. [...]
Stress is everywhere. We see it in virtually everyone we come in contact with and we certainly feel it ourselves. It resides outside our bodies in the form of noise, pollution, temperature, physical condition, and family and work pressure. It resides within our bodies as thoughts, emotions, and even in the form of high blood [...]
Recently, my husband Dave and I planned a return to our honeymoon destination for our 24th wedding anniversary. Our anniversary is January 16th and leaving the northeast for this year's symbolic vacation at a Jamaican all-inclusive resort was highly anticipated. The travel was long and when we arrived the weather was odd - extremely windy [...]