My friend Molly died yesterday and my heart aches with the terrible loss. I grieve for myself, for her family and for everyone who knew her — the earth truly felt like a better...

In my massage therapy practice, a woman brought her ten year old son in for a half hour session — it was the reward he had requested for having earned good grades at school....

When I see impressive Facebook postings and pictures of things that people are doing, I want to click the “like” button, I really do — and once in a while it’s difficult. I want to be...

A woman that I knew when I was working, is one of the most positive people I have ever met — she could probably make lemonade with no lemons.  She attributed a large part...

A woman with a sad face told me that she and her husband were like roommates.  She said that they had settled into such a standard routine after so many years together, their relationship...

When I was first married, my husband and I lived in a very small town not unlike the one where I had grown up. Each year, weather took a toll on the community’s holiday...

We cut a beautiful Christmas tree yesterday and when I went inside and paid for it, the woman at the cash register handed me a dollar.  She told me that the orchard gives a...

I’ve had so many positive results from acupuncture over the years that I recently encouraged my husband to try it and wasn’t surprised when it worked well for him too.  I also wasn’t surprised...

My husband’s mother died six weeks ago.  She lived to be a hundred years old and endured severe dementia for many years, though her attitude remained positive — she was almost always smiling.  Last...

One of my objectives is attempting to eradicate words of regret from my vocabulary.  Coulda, shoulda, woulda? On their way to being erased, I hope. I haven’t yet quite succeeded and I’m trying to...