The Power of Habit
Every morning I drink a large glass of room-temperature water. It’s one of the first things I do. I’ve done it for almost 30 years. I do...
The Power of Thoughts
Can genuine joy coexist with heart-rending grief? I doubted it. Not until I experienced it myself would I have believed joy could be so...
The Power of Gratitude
“They’re not angry. They’re just grateful.” That was how one volunteer described the desperate people he was rescuing from Hurricane...
Beauty queen at the nursing home
I’ve known her all my life. Aunt Dort, I called her, short for Aunt Dorothy. But in the past few years, she became much more to me. As a...
Healing Wounds
This week I’m recovering from an especially painful episode. Sometimes the skin on my hands have sores and the cracks when exposed to too...
Am I at peace?
For months I wondered, will I ever be at peace? And what does it mean to have peace? Is peace the tranquilizing of emotions or the...