It’s not his job to make me happy, and it’s not my job to make him happy. Happiness is an inside job Some of us want our partner to be responsible for our well being. We blame them for our misery and credit them with our joy, when the truth is, our misery and our joy are far beyond their ability to control. We need to find those things within ourselves. Our approach is simple. We figure we’ll have 80 or 90 years here on planet Earth in this lifetime. We further figure we have

It’s not his job to make me happy, and it’s not my job to make him happy. Happiness is an inside job Some of us want our partner to be responsible for our well being. We blame them for our misery and credit them with our joy, when the truth is, our misery and our joy are far beyond their ability to control. We need to find those things within ourselves. Our approach is simple. We figure we’ll have 80 or 90 years here on planet Earth in this lifetime. We further figure we have

First, I apologize for not posting sooner. Like the rest of you, I’ve been reeling since the events of last weekend in Charlottesville. I’ve started several posts and deleted them. I couldn’t post until I had something to say that was helpful. But I couldn’t seem to find anything that was helping ME. Then Boston Happened. 40,000 peaceful lovers came out in response to 100 haters. And then I read about a hate rally in Tennessee where the hate groups were met by clowns. Here’s

First, I apologize for not posting sooner. Like the rest of you, I’ve been reeling since the events of last weekend in Charlottesville. I’ve started several posts and deleted them. I couldn’t post until I had something to say that was helpful. But I couldn’t seem to find anything that was helping ME. Then Boston Happened. 40,000 peaceful lovers came out in response to 100 haters. And then I read about a hate rally in Tennessee where the hate groups were met by clowns. Here’s

Do not be seduced by hate, my friends. When you see mass shootings, acts of violence and terrorism, you are looking at the results of living in hate and in fear. Violence is just hate and fear given form. When we see it and then we join in, feeling fear and feeling hatred, wanting vengeance, beginning to believe the “us-vs.-them” lie, we only make the hate and fear and resulting violence grow bigger. Hatred and fear are the root of all the violence we are seeing. More hat

Do not be seduced by hate, my friends. When you see mass shootings, acts of violence and terrorism, you are looking at the results of living in hate and in fear. Violence is just hate and fear given form. When we see it and then we join in, feeling fear and feeling hatred, wanting vengeance, beginning to believe the “us-vs.-them” lie, we only make the hate and fear and resulting violence grow bigger. Hatred and fear are the root of all the violence we are seeing. More hat

Do not be seduced by hate, my friends. When you see mass shootings, acts of violence and terrorism, you are looking at the results of living in hate and in fear. Violence is just hate and fear given form. When we see it and then we join in, feeling fear and feeling hatred, wanting vengeance, beginning to believe the “us-vs.-them” lie, we only make the hate and fear and resulting violence grow bigger. Hatred and fear are the root of all the violence we are seeing. More hat

Here’s what I got during a deep meditation this past Sunday night. Violence, war, genocide, torture, all forms of cruelty and ugliness are the physical manifestations of pain. Pain creates fear (fear of more pain, fear of worse pain.) And fear creates hatred. Everything non-physical has a physical equivalent, including (especially) emotions. The physical forms of pain, hate and fear, are violence and cruelty. They are created by all of us whenever we express hatred or act

Here’s what I got during a deep meditation this past Sunday night. Violence, war, genocide, torture, all forms of cruelty and ugliness are the physical manifestations of pain. Pain creates fear (fear of more pain, fear of worse pain.) And fear creates hatred. Everything non-physical has a physical equivalent, including (especially) emotions. The physical forms of pain, hate and fear, are violence and cruelty. They are created by all of us whenever we express hatred or act

Here’s what I got during a deep meditation this past Sunday night. Violence, war, genocide, torture, all forms of cruelty and ugliness are the physical manifestations of pain. Pain creates fear (fear of more pain, fear of worse pain.) And fear creates hatred. Everything non-physical has a physical equivalent, including (especially) emotions. The physical forms of pain, hate and fear, are violence and cruelty. They are created by all of us whenever we express hatred or act

Yes, true love is real. And yes, I would say that. I’m a romance novelist currently engaged to the love of her life and blissfully happy. If I didn’t believe in love, I wouldn’t be here, blogging at you. More importantly, I wouldn’t be here, in this life. Love is when you recognize yourself in the eyes of another. Never is this more obvious than in the love between a mother and her child. She looks into the eyes of this child that she herself has brought into creation, a chil

Yes, true love is real. And yes, I would say that. I’m a romance novelist currently engaged to the love of her life and blissfully happy. If I didn’t believe in love, I wouldn’t be here, blogging at you. More importantly, I wouldn’t be here, in this life. Love is when you recognize yourself in the eyes of another. Never is this more obvious than in the love between a mother and her child. She looks into the eyes of this child that she herself has brought into creation, a chil

Yes, true love is real. And yes, I would say that. I’m a romance novelist currently engaged to the love of her life and blissfully happy. If I didn’t believe in love, I wouldn’t be here, blogging at you. More importantly, I wouldn’t be here, in this life. Love is when you recognize yourself in the eyes of another. Never is this more obvious than in the love between a mother and her child. She looks into the eyes of this child that she herself has brought into creation, a chil