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It’s actually not absence but presence –really being there with someone— that makes the heart grow fonder. ~Doe Zantamata   We have always heard, “absence makes the heart grow fonder.” And I think I have always believed that to a point. Whenever I was in a relationship and one of us was away, I always…

2015 was a year filled with purging. I cleaned up a lot of eating habits and lost weight. I eat far less proessed foods today and continue to work at cleaner eating, although I fall back into old habits often, can you say chips or chocolate?? I also purged clothes. I was creating a new…

“When we can accept someone where they are, We can experience grace in all relationships.” ~Gabby Bernstein   I have been struggling with some feelings lately, focused on relationships that I am missing. Relationships that feel as if they changed a bit. Perhaps some unspoken words or expressions of feelings. Feelings of frustration that I…

I was recently speaking with a good friend who I adore and who, like me has fluctuated with weight. The difference is at her heaviest she is thinner than my thin. But at her thinnest, she is small. I don’t generally notice the weight she says she’s gained, I think she looks healthy not frail.…

I like and can relate to much of Adele’s music. She captures many of the conflicted feelings that stir and at times choke me.  Her most recent hit, “Hello”, resonates a lot with me at this point in my life and evolution. I spent a long time blaming my ex-husband for what caused the marriage…

There is a theory that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Eckart Tolle speaks to the power of now and how you must be in the moment, that now is all you have. If you spend too much time in the past you may miss the opportunity and the lesson and growth…

We all put walls around us to protect us from hurt. Some are quite apparent as they may be less social, guarded and perhaps never really share feelings with anyone. Others are less so as they give the appearance of being an open book, but they really let very few people into their pain. They…

I used to love roller coasters! I would go on everyone we could find with my first husband. We loved the myriad of coasters at Great Adventure which was not far from where we lived. We liked stand up coasters, regular up and down coasters, loved loops and going upside down and of course speed…we…

Much of my adult life I have had what my friends call “concert voice.” Usually occurring after a night at a concert where I am singing loudly, talking, laughing, and for many years probably smoking. I would wake up with a sultry, sexy laryngitis that very often (at one time the only name used) compared…

The ferocity of the sea paralleled the feelings in my soul. Unrest. I could feel the sea spray on my skin with each crash of a wave on the jagged rocks below. The scene reminded me of the many books and movies where the heroine decided the world was more cruel than the rolling deep…