Happy Valentine’s Day

As I write this, I imagine there are women running around getting pedicures and bikini waxes and men filling candy stores in droves. And the frugal and philosophical sorts making a big deal of not celebrating. And the people in dead marriages not knowing what the hell...

Love

I don’t know that I have learned more about love from one Valentine’s Day to the next than in this past year. Ever, ever grateful.

Grateful and kind

As I head out for the Thanksgiving holiday, I leave you with today’s Game Plan column called Try Kindness in Trying Times. I find that people are too quick to lash out and judge others without any knowledge of what might be really going on. We can’t...

From one writer to another

As a columnist, I have always been grateful to Anna Quindlen, who has forged a path that made mine a little easier. This week, her column in Newsweek is like a salve on an open wound, for it expressed what my uneasiness has been about the last week or so. It’s...

Take me higher

For the first time in months, I have changed the “Recent Inspiration” quote on my home page. I was moved to this morning when I started rereading A New Earth. It is speaking to me in a whole new way and I am ever grateful to author Eckhart Tolle for...