8 ways to thrive despite the news

These hot, sultry days of August are some of the hottest, most uncomfortable part of summer. But the heat doesn’t stop with the weather. Temperatures, or should I say temperaments, of all kinds seem to be running high. I see it most in the never ending flow of bad...

Being open to all the possibilities

If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. —Marc Anthony Given my background even as I pursuit this idea of creating a new life, (here’s nice article by someone else who’s doing the same,) I am repeatedly reminded it’s not...

Appreciating the ebb and the flow…

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my...