It was Earth Day this week. A time to celebrate “a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky” (Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, looking at the Earth from space in 1969) So I took a walk in my neighborhood to appreciate the gifts Mother Earth has given us. My neighbor Lisa does a...

Being in nature is one of my joys but it has its dangers! I was out raking leaves on a lovely Spring afternoon last week and didn’t realize that I invaded a poison ivy patch.  Only my face was exposed, and that’s where it got me! So Mother Nature does have some things...

Today, we're talking about the things we do every day. You can call them rituals if you do them every single day without even thinking about it. For instance, you wake up in the morning and what’s the first thing you do? Do you brush your teeth, wash your face and...

So many of us are feeling drained, demoralized and helpless. Still reeling from covid, feeling the pinch in our pockets from higher prices in the supermarket and the pump, &at a loss to comprehend whats going on in Ukraine What can we do? 1. We can pray! 2. We can...

There's a lot of stress-provoking stuff going on these days. Of course there always has been and there always will be here because as this earth spins, all kinds of things are juggling around, and so there are always opportunities to handle those situations. Today, I...

First, a little background: When I met my husband, he was a widower with two sons. When we got married, I moved from my studio apartment in Queens to my husband’s home in Nassau County. We lived in that house for 35 years, with our kids and many pets. I reveled in the...

It does seem like we are very divided in our communities, in our country and in the world. We humans, we're a feisty bunch. When disaster strikes, what do we do? We take sides, right? We find a bad guy. We look to blame somebody for whatever is going on. And all this...

If you live here in the West, I'm sure you're hearing that Russia has invaded the Ukraine. But if you are living in parts of the East, in Russia or China, you may be hearing that Russia is defending its territory. So which is true?As we've seen lately, truth seems to...

Something happened yesterday which just bowled me over. It filled me with gratitude. So today I have to talk about gratitude. When was the last time you felt grateful?   For me, gratitude is like falling in love. It's this wave of utter delight that envelops me,...