Breasts, B.B.’s and Belated Beatitudes

    I am at the doctor’s office filling out the standard paperwork.  It’s been a year since my last mammogram.  I scan the list of every horrendous ailment. “No,” I check to burning, itching, psychiatric disorders. “No” to cancer, diabetes, heart disease and...

How Can Boundaries Bring You Closer?

    How can a boundary that’s essentially a barrier enable you to become closer to someone? It’s not a riddle, but an enigmatic truth principle.   Avoidance and distance are our natural defense mechanisms built in to eliminate the pain of those who trod...

What’s Your Theme for 2017?

    Theme parks. Party themes. Theme songs.     Are you catching the theme?   Themes are a way of organizing a big picture category, a vibe, a value, a guiding principle.   Disney chose the theme “The Happiest Place on Earth” and...

What Will You Put on Your Gift List?

  As we slam into the end of the year it seems we can’t avoid the bombardment of messages telling us to buy buy buy   Yet, by next year it’s likely whatever was bought this year will either be broken, out of fashion, not the Apple 8, or lost and forgotten....

What’s In Your Blind Spot?

      It was 5:15  am. I awoke to the sound of my husband yelling up the stairs. “My car’s blocked and I need to leave now.”  I raced for the keys, jumped in my daughter’s car and without adjusting the seat or mirrors, began the...