When I was a kid, my dad on occasion, would fix dinner for my brother and I. One of his favorites, aside from canned tamales and chilli, was Spam. Regardless of what he prepared, we cried and begged our mom to protect us from his culinary disasters. Not only were these three ingredients my dad’s [...]
Here’s a question that creates a lot of different reactions! Are feelings a choice? Think about the last time you were really angry. How did you behave? Did you pout? Did you throw something? Did you punish the person you were upset with by ignoring them? What do you do with your feelings? This isn’t [...]
I’ve had so many calls and emails from you all wishing us well and praying for us. As many of you know, John’s father, after a courageous fight to recover from two surgeries, finally passed away on February 1. Needless to say, my articles came to a halt around New Years because we stayed at [...]
Have you ever opened your heart, trusted someone and then felt the horrific sting of betrayal? Have you ever dropped a wall in hopes that the reason for the wall itself was somehow all wrong from the start? That’s the stuff dreams are made of after all. The hope of something we never thought would [...]
My Daughter Kelsey and I at the same age
I’ve been going through a lot of family pictures lately trying to get many scanned and properly stored away in our home. This is one of the final “to do’s” since my marriage and merger that I haven’t finished yet, so I’m in photo-organization-mode. I found some [...]
How will the world be a better place when you’re gone? Will your presence have made any impact at all?
There is a program close to my heart called CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) and it makes a difference in the lives of children who are tangled up in the legal system as a result of a [...]
One of the things I was born to do is write. Years ago, I took the plunge and started writing books that I was burning to put on paper. One was a story about my life and the painful journey through my 30’s. The other was a series of daily drills to help readers change [...]
Now is your chance to be heard! We’ve listened to the debates, read the articles, sifted through fact and fiction (hopefully) and now it’s time to use our voices!
Some of you know that my view of politics is, ONE VOICE, ONE VOTE, so I tend to look down on all the slamming and spamming that goes [...]
There is a trend in our culture and perhaps in our world that involves people being reckless with their words. It’s a personal peeve of mine because I (try to) live by a principle that I learned many years ago, that my words should be IMPECCABLE. When my kids were young, I drilled the phrase [...]
I’ve worked with many people over the years and have discovered some common denominators. One that I find the most fascinating is that we create stories and we live in them just like living out a script. The stories I’m talking about are typically designed to guard and reinforce our own negative feelings and beliefs. Let me explain. As we go [...]
