You’re the One

In a world and in a season where we are often focused on accumulating more of everything, I have been in wonder about the number one. One little word that contains so much power. In almost every era there has been one remarkable human being who forever changed the...

Joy To The World

Visions of sugar plumbs and rain deer have never danced in my head. As a little girl, Christmas came in the middle of the Yuma, Arizona desert with my family of five in an old one room Army trailer smaller than a normal bedroom. At night, winter winds would whip so...

The High is the Ride

Oh Gawd, it’s that time of year again. One Christmas my son gave me tennis shoes with bright neon side panels and a pump up arch. The next Christmas he gave me bar bells, turquoise colored bar bells, graduating in size and weight. The kind you can’t miss when walking...

Brighten Those Holiday Blues

Many people, especially those who are single, find it difficult to cope with the Holiday season. During a time that should be filled with warm connected feelings, some of us are plagued with concerns about money, aloneness and what the future holds. There are some...

Gifts of Gratitude

How do we remain consistently exuberant and exhilarated by life? What is the secret? It’s all about gratitude. It’s about being delighted in the ordinary and surprised and awed by existence — our own and everyone else’s. It’s about sitting around your Holiday...