Monthly Archives: December 2022

As we launch into a new year, a lovely poem to light our way: Barterby Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff,Soaring fire that sways and singsAnd children’s faces looking upHolding … Continue reading →

What a difference a positive attitude makes! How it empowers us to fill our day with energy and creativity! To get us all started off in a sparkling, peppy “can-do” state of mind, here are “10 Positive Assumptions” to ponder … Continue reading →

“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” C.S. Lewis “Favorable conditions never come.” How true this is, isn’t it? And … Continue reading →

Sinclair Lewis, already a successful novelist, was slated to deliver an hour-long lecture to college students who planned to be writers. As he stood before them, his papers and briefcase in front of him, he asked a question: “How many … Continue reading →

Easy reading is damned hard writing.”   Nathaniel Hawthorne “You know, I’ve read your last story, and I ought to have returned it weeks ago. It isn’t right. It’s almost right. It almost works. But not quite. You are too … Continue reading →

Wishing you and yours all the blessings of the winter season as we move toward the light! Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you. … Continue reading →

The greatest good we can do for another is not to share our riches but to reveal to him his own.”   Benjamin Disraeli “Spread the light; be the lighthouse.”   Yogi Teabag Quote A cherished friend and mentor once shared something … Continue reading →

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.” Martha Washington Martha surely knew … Continue reading →

As I concentrate on each word of this thought, ‘now’ slips by me into the past. My past, then, is nothing more than a history of how well I dealt with each irretrievable ‘now.’ So if yesterday is history, tomorrow … Continue reading →

“Be bigger than your fears.”Dorothy Today, December 20, is my mom Dorothy’s birthday; she passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2004. Since then, my beautiful sister Stephanie and I came up with the idea of celebrating her birthday by going … Continue reading →