A few nights ago, I attended an impressionable speaking event at our neighborhood Eastwest Bookshop. The speaker was a former Carmelite monastic nun for ten years and had written a book titled Love Calls. She was “playful and provocative” and resembled Sally Field in her looks and mannerisms. (Remember Sally in “The Flying Nun?”) […]
Since Craig died on July 10, 2017, Jerry on March 7, 2019, and my dear friend, Dee, just recently on August 22, 2109; I have read or listened to almost 100 books on death, grieving, and the afterlife. If you have been following my blogs, you will know that I am writing my own book about […]
I love to walk! It doesn’t matter where or when or the temperature outside – I just love to walk. It makes me happy. I do gratitude walks almost every day and I start out by proclaiming, out loud, all the things I am grateful for. When someone approaches, I zip it for a bit […]
With Halloween right around the corner I was reminded of some “scary” things that have recently transpired with my health. I was made aware that “if you don’t have your health – you don’t have anything!” My dear, feisty, and amazing almost 95-year-old friend and fellow Arbonne consultant, also emphasized how fortunate I am to […]
Recently I did a team training for my business called “Arbonne and the Onion.” So many things were relevant to the company and the onion that I realized “Life is Like an Onion.” Let’s start with Maui Onions. How many people do you know that wouldn’t want to go to Hawaii or go on vacation? […]
Happy Halloween – the month of tricks and treats! It would have been my dear grandmother’s 127th birthday this month, so I am reposting this blog below, from 6 years ago, in her honor. I have had dramatic and traumatic changes in the last six years of my life. I no longer have any fear […]
People have told me that I couldn’t possibly understand what it is like to try to lose weight! Flippantly they say, “I bet you don’t weigh 100 pounds! How could size 2 you (if that), possibly help me lose weight – let alone – keep it off?!” Sadly, I hear this comment every day from […]
As I was digging through the catacombs on my website, I found a blog that I had written 3 years ago that is so timely today, that I am reposting it. I, myself, was mesmerized by the included link from Marianne Williamson’s book, From Tears to Triumph. Three years ago I posted that if she […]
In last week’s blog I shared a letter I wrote to my dear friend Dee, as a way to ease my grief. This week I am including an alphabet of suggestions to calm your pain with my “ABC’s for Easing Grief.” A. Act. Act kindly towards yourself and others. Do an act of kindness for […]
Losing a loved one is hard – no matter what. The thing that has helped me the most in these sad traumatic times is to write a detailed letter to the one I am missing. I like to include all the things that I don’t ever want to forget. Recently my dear and precious friend, […]