Be Grateful, and…

Be Grateful, and…

Be grateful for your life. It is truly a blessing. Feel gratitude every day. Look for things to feel grateful about.  Most days, I am living in gratitude. And yes, there are days when I am not. And then there are those “I’m grateful but…” days. Here’s what I’ve...
Where Is Your Focus?

Where Is Your Focus?

I just want to go back to a normal life. This is what I was thinking a week or so ago. Rewind. Go back before school shootings. Go back before COVID. Go back before the meanness and hatred and the divisiveness that is tearing our world apart. Back to when neighbors...
You Know It’s Mercury Retrograde When…

You Know It’s Mercury Retrograde When…

My cleaning lady was here on Friday. Love her. She is one of the kindest, most honest people I have ever met. If I try to leave her a little extra for her hard work, she’ll rebuff it. It’s her job, she’ll say. And then she’ll bring ME Portuguese pastries. That in...
Shifting My Perspective…Again

Shifting My Perspective…Again

I have been on a mission this year, with the end goal to look good in the pictures at my son?s wedding in December. I had wanted to ?release? a few pounds and get back into shape (again), and this was good incentive. I put myself on a very realistic and reasonable...
Thanks-Getting

Thanks-Getting

I love this season of Thanksgiving, when the emphasis is on love and family and gratitude. There is nothing like a large boisterous gathering, where people you?ve known your whole life travel to be with one another and give thanks for their blessings. It can be...