The Ultimate Caregiver’s Playlist
Music is often the soundtrack of our lives. Particular songs evoke memories of personal pain, triumphs, love, commitment and maybe a broken heart. Other tunes just make us happy by…
Uplifting
So You Want Me To Get Screened?
I had the privilege of talking about cancer screening with a dozen women who have a history of child abuse. This is what I learned: Filed under: Concerning, Uplifting Tagged:…
Cardinals Know the Day
I heard cardinals singing this morning. They know the days are getting longer. – A One minute longer than yesterday. Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: city birds
Sun on Ice
It’s very cold but I’m grateful for the sun. (click to enlarge) Sending warm thoughts to everyone still waiting for power and to all those working so hard to restore…
The Day Calls
Car Rainbow (click to enlarge) The day calls to you and you call back. Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: urban photography
Buddha’s Flowers on Christmas
Click to enlarge I saw the day come into the sky this morning and waited for my family to awake. There was peace and there was joy, like the songs,…
Inspiring Ted Talk: Peace
I remember first coming across the Facebook Page that this talk is about, but I didn’t know the context, how it got started, or how it evolved. The video went…
Multiple Personalities: We on the Inside; We on the Outside
I’ve been intensely living with the Power of We for about 8 years, so it is karmic that today is Blog Action Day and the theme is The Power of…
Project Sanctuary: 27 Children Safe
This is the sort of story I collect, the kind that inspired Web of Angels: Det. Paul Krawczyk and D/Const. Janelle Blackadar of the Sex Crimes Unit Child Exploitation Section…
A Brief Encounter with Meaning
Today I walked to the post office to mail a copy of my book to my dear friend J who is currently living in China. I’ve meant to do it…
Israel & Iran: A Love Story
Amidst the war-mongering rhetoric of politicans, a quiet message is being passed back and forth on Facebook between ordinary people. Here’s the story: Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: antidote to politics
The Taxi Driver and the Book Lovers’ Ball
The Book Lovers’ Ball was fantastic. I met several of my favourite writer friends there and we had a great conversation before dinner. Great conversation continued during dinner at my…
What If
Sometimes I say to my kids, That’s a tool not a toy, treat it with respect. But what if I’m wrong about that? What if they’re all toys? I’ve been…
Looking to 2012
"I made a gift for you" (click to enlarge) One of my children wrote this on my window yesterday. I will take it as my motto for 2012. Each day…
Last Night Of Hanukah
This is what we saw as the candles burnt low, reflected in the window, Christmas lights visible from across the street. We were all sitting in the living room, lights…
TV Christmas
I grew up in the golden ghetto, a neighbourhood surrounded on 3 sides by railroad tracks, an irony that I was aware of even as a kid, given that this…
In Praise of Reality
This week I’ve been very tired after a flurry of busy preparations for the release of Web of Angels as well as months of homework, swim lessons, hockey games and…
On Vulnerability
This is a fabulous talk, worth the time to listen: funny and inspiring. I took notes. Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: Ted Talk vulnerability
Happy Tears–the Horsie Runs
This is one of those wonderful stories that give you faith. I won’t say anything about it but let you watch for yourself and provide a link to all the…