All financial debt is self-punishment. – Edwene Gaines
A friend came to me the other day with the infamous question about whether to stay with the man she was with. Or leave him. I’m sure we’ve all had …
This is the most beautiful expression of love I have ever seen. I took this picture years ago in a cemetery in Ireland. There is no name on the headstone. …
Why is it in the face of the most horrifying pain and difficulty we no longer cry? We have learned to buffer. To manage. To expect it and get by. …
Commit to beauty. Not glamour. Commit to affection. Not attention. Commit to craft. Not work. Commit to process. Not outcome. Commit to love. Not duty. Commit to do. Not try. …
A new kind of service standards are in order. Think of the people in your life. The ones that matter. Really matter. What kind of service would they say you’re …
Dr. John Gottman of the University of Washington studied marriage and found that “unless a couple is able to maintain a high ratio of positive to negative encounters (5:1 or …
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you …
I found an old letter from my Great Aunt Marg (award-winning poet, Margaret Avison) referring to some of my early teenage attempts at writing that my grandmother had shared with …
I implore all leaders at all levels – instead of just offering sick days, employees should be allowed read-a-book days. For those rare times when a book is so compelling. …