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  Suicide is a difficult topic to write about. Especially when it’s my first blog post. I have read blogs for years on the topics of hope and healing. I have seen the statistics over and over again: suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. (2nd leading for those 10-24 years […]

Elevator Encounters…

Elevator rides…aren’t they funny? Recently I was in an elevator and one woman told us she had just become a great grandma. Showing us all her pictures she exclaimed, “my little chunky monkey”. This caused a man riding to chuckle causing a teenager to hide her head and roll her eyes which started another woman […]

Yellow Almost Red Light Kind of Day…

I was off to a dr. appointment and running a bit behind schedule, I was catching all the yellow lights. I thought to myself, I am having a yellow almost red light kind of day. It was as if the whole world was urging me to slow down. How easy it is on a yellow almost […]

Happiness Supplement…

Where is your happy place? That place you can go where you feel the release of life’s stressors – almost imperceptibly your tense muscles soften, your breaths become deeper, your mind becomes quiet. Mine is the beach…Just a little, isolated beach where often the closest people are way more than a stone’s throw away. Here […]

Supercharge Your Day…

Upon leaving for work one day this week, my husband called after me… “Make the world a better place today.” During the ride to work, those words seemed to hang in the air. How often do we begin our day three steps ahead…I have this to do, I have to complete this, this matter can’t […]