Greener Grass “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”  - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose I’ve read everything I can get my hands on by Eckhart Tolle.  Yet his lesson is one I struggle to live by.  How many times a day do you think about how life would be better if things were different in some way? We all do it.  Let’s come clean.  We do it to ourselves and it’s killing us.  Maybe it...Read More

Thank You So, you write a novel over a period of about ten years.  No, you’re not an author with a big advance from a well-known publishing house.  In fact, you’re a pretty regular person - a busy working mom - and you have no business writing a novel.  But for some inexplicable reason, it's a calling you’ve felt in your bones forever and you’re unable to ignore it for one more minute. After trying to write on your own for a while, you do a crazy thing and join a writing group.  ...Read More

Hi Everyone, in last week’s blog, I said we’d talk about infidelity this week.  I had some research and some thoughts typed up but didn’t get to finish that blog because I got sick.  I’ve had a nasty cold for seven days now.  So I thought I’d be honest about that and share it with you.  It really sucks to be sick when you’re a crazy busy working mom.  Do you ever feel that way?  Whether you work outside the home or have the hardest job of taking care of your kids all day, bein...Read More

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhart I’m posting the second of my weekly blogs a day early and here’s why.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving so I thought it would be fun to invite you to share what you’re grateful for.  But then I realized that on Thanksgiving and the day after I’ll be away with my family at a cabin in the woods where there’s no Internet.  Next thought: What if lots of people are writing all these wonderful things they�...Read More