Small Acts Matter: Microfitness and Microservice
The pandemic has complicated every area of my life, which has increased my levels of anxiety and depression. For months, I have been striving to find ways to recalibrate my life by recognizing my...
View ArticleThe Perils of Supporting a Parent
My father and his wife life in the Houston metro area, which has experienced record-breaking cold this last week. I called on Tuesday to check on them. That is when I learned they had already gone 30...
View ArticleTwenty-Five Days
Having folded the contents with precision, I sealed the package and affixed the customs declaration. “How long will this take to reach the US?” I queried the Chinese-Australian who ran my local post...
View ArticleHeck Is Other People
I have started to rejoin society now that cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19 have plummet in my region. However, I am still adjusting to being around people. After spending several...
View ArticleWhen Someone Is Drowning: Help, Hinder, or Walk by?
When I am having problems managing my emotions, I sometimes cause a bit of a scene. “* Helping Hand *” by pareeerica is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I admire introverts for their ability to keep...
View ArticleSeeing Clearly and Clearly Seeing Prayer
It took me decades -literally decades- to finally be assessed for surgery. A car accident in my late teens left me with a broken nose and emergency-room refastened (stapled) eyelids. My husband never...
View ArticleAddressing Halloween Impoliteness: Increase Compassion
For the second year, I set up a folding table in my driveway to greet Halloween goblins. I don’t know many of my neighbors in our large development that sees 100 plus Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween....
View ArticleComfort In, Those in Need of Comfort; Dump Out
Life’s challenges tend to overwhelm me unless I make a conscious decision to stand back and gain some perspective. One of the tools that has helped me to do this is the Ring Theory explained by Susan...
View ArticleParables Read from Multiple Perspectives
When I encounter a hardship in my life, I benefit from turning to the scriptures for comfort and guidance. In the second half of my life, I found myself looking at parables from multiple viewpoints....
View ArticleHonor All Who Serve
HONOR ALL WHO SERVE Veterans Day holiday – formerly known as Armistice Day (so designated after “The Great War” or World War 1 in 1918) – was signed into being on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the...
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