STANDING FIRM

STANDING FIRM

 “You can’t always control what happens to you, but you can control how you choose to respond.” The words of some ‘wise-guy’ echoed in my empty mind when life threw a curve-ball at me recently. It’s incredible the one-liners we remember in our...
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

For my husband’s 50th birthday, we decided to celebrate by taking a major bucket list ticking holiday to Hawaii.  We were not disappointed.  The friendly people, the bending coconut palms, the perfect temperature, the rolling swells of Waikiki Beach all...
CREATING ENVIRONMENTS

CREATING ENVIRONMENTS

I think we all get ourselves into negative cycles from time to time: the way we parent, the way we speak to our husbands, the way we talk about others, the way we think about certain things, the way we eat or exercise (or lack of), the way we speak about ourselves can...
DESTINED TO RUN

DESTINED TO RUN

 I found myself recently on a treadmill, but not by choice if I can say that, but out of a pure need to have my heart functions tested to check the state of responsiveness in stressful conditions. Luckily for me, I did not trip over or fly off the end when they...
THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP – PART 1

THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP – PART 1

Friendship is truly one of life’s great gifts.  I can say that now that I’m in my late forties and have decades of relationships and life experiences behind me.  I had no real understanding of the role my girlfriends would play in my life as a young woman,...