I’m glad I’m not French. No offense to the French, I actually love the country, the food, and the people… but twelve years ago on Bastille Day, our lives changed forever. If it were any other normal day, I maybe…
Tag Archives: hope
My NEW Book of Poetry is HERE!
As a writer, I am always transforming thoughts into words, whether it’s the inspirational wisdom I share regularly in InspireBytes™ or the self-help guidance and teachings that I put into full-length books. (What now..? will be out in November… stay…
Hope, Oprah and An Invitation
After last night’s moving speech by Oprah Winfrey at the 75th Golden Globes, I took pause to revisit something I have been writing about and teaching for almost a decade: Hope. Hope, as Oprah put it, is the one thing…
Apathy, Indifference and … Hope
Last week I wrote about Hope being the antidote to Fear. But what is the antidote to Hope? I actually hadn’t thought about this, because I believe Hope is one of those things that is ever-present. Even in the worst circumstances,…
How do we make sense of the senseless?
How do we make sense of the senseless? (video here, if you prefer to listen/watch) To begin with, senseless tragedy and violence seem to be all around us. Our nervous systems are on overload, so even getting into a space…
Showered by Grace
What is it about Grace that we can have a thousand different definitions, from a thousand different people, and yet somehow we can all be saying the same thing? For me, writing my piece for 365 Moments of Grace became an exercise…
Faith, Spirituality, and Religion (plus my thoughts on their role in terror, violence, and love)
Just after the San Bernardino mass shootings, I queried a trusted group of friends for suggestions for my blog – the one that was supposed to run last week. (Perhaps you noticed that I never wrote one.) You see, I…