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My husband, Dick, suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), so when the days get shorter, his anxiety mounts. Until we figured out what was going on, the emotional toll was so crippling that Dick was unable to function normally. It took his doctor several annual cycles to figure out that the cause of Dick’s anxiety, depression and general malaise had no basis in his relationships,...

Perhaps it was because Christmas is rapidly approaching. Whatever the reason, I shed a few tears today. They were neither tears of physical pain nor tears of joy. Rather they were tears of sorrow, tears of loss and for what will never be again. The tears came as I reread my musing about my Mom and also recalled my musing about my Dad. They were tears for what once was but are gone forever....

My neck and back had been hurting lately, and I visited my chiropractor. He suggested that since I use a laptop, the screen is in the wrong position. He advised me to put the computer up on phone books, and get a new keyboard. (Did you know that the proper height for your computer screen is for the top of the screen to be at eye level?) So off I went to Staples and came home...

There is always a particular moment when you clearly know you need to change your life. That desire for change is like a grain of sand in a shoe, imperceptible at first but grinding away until it becomes the only thing you notice. Your instinct is to dismiss the feelings. Saying, “I can tough this out “or “it could be worse”. Often we find it easier to recognize the emotions...

All of us have been effected by the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. People are sad and people are angry. There's a lot of conversation going on with a lot of emotion. As a global New Thought community, we have to feel our feelings and then get to work. We know that changing our consciousness can change absolutely anything! There have been so many wonderful meditations, prayers...

Christmas might seem to be a strange time of talk about a Nero Wolfe novel by the author Rex Stout. However, the murder mystery, Christmas Party, is one of four stories in his novel, And Four To Go. As the story's title might suggest, the murder took place at a Christmas party hosted by the murder victim, Kurt Weill. At one point during the party and before his murder, Weill gave a toast to...

While the following is my personal musing, I suspect it could have been written by many who have lost their parents. I quietly and privately cried today. They were neither tears of physical pain nor tears of joy. Rather they were tears of sorrow, tears of loss and for what will never be again. The tears came as I reread my musing about my Mom and also recalled my musing about my Dad. They...

Christmas might seem to be a strange time of talk about a Nero Wolfe novel by the author Rex Stout. However, the murder mystery, Christmas Party, is one of four stories in his novel, And Four To Go. As the story's title might suggest, the murder took place at a Christmas party hosted by the murder victim, Kurt Weill. At one point during the party and before his murder, Weill gave a toast to...

Bear with me; this really is about classmates and not growing older. My journey into blogging began a few years ago and not by design. There is a group of my classmates (Class of 1954) who gather once a year to share pleasant moments with together. After one of those gatherings, I wrote an email to my classmates to let them know how special they are to me. That singular email soon...