Volunteering Lifts Spirits
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. –Muhammad Ali
The winter holidays are on the horizon. Hanukkah overlaps with Christmas and this year it is celebrated from December 18th to … Read more
Shining a Light On Seasonal Affective Disorder
Some people love experiencing the change of seasons as summer heat melts like an ice cream cone into pumpkin spice fall foliage, crisp mornings, and chilly, star-sparkled nights. Others dread the coming of autumn since it brings with it early … Read more
Here’s To All of the Book Lovers!
Sitting on the floor in a small-town library, the young child eagerly listened to the mesmerizing tales read by the ‘library lady’, as she called her. She felt she was in the presence of magic. The stories beckoned her to … Read more
Why Is Polarization An All-Too-Common Human Experience?
As human beings, we have multiple commonalities. We need air, water, food, clothing, shelter, nurturing, education, and safety. We have skin hunger — the biological need for human touch — that is as essential as all of those aforementioned items. … Read more
A Valentine’s Day Gift To Yourself
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”-Dr. Seuss
What’s sweeter than chocolate and longer lasting than chocolate? The adoration of the person who gazes back at you when … Read more
Organizing Your Life in the New Year
As you look around your environs, do you see piles of papers, a tower of books, dust bunnies peeking out from under the bed, heaps of laundry, dishes in the sink and on counter tops? If you are like most … Read more
Do You Have Creative Constipation?
Do you believe that creativity is something you are born with or that it needs to be cultivated, or sweated and strained over as if it was an ordeal? What if imagination came as part and parcel of this human … Read more
Can You Ever Do Enough, Be Enough or Have Enough?
Look in the mirror and what do you see? A person who is striving for perfection or one who can accept themselves as is? Someone who isn’t tall enough, thin enough, attractive enough, smart enough, wealthy enough, or one who … Read more
Opening the Time Capsule
Imagine opening a time capsule in the year 3020 and reading about a world changing event that occurred 1000 years earlier. It contains a roll of toilet paper, a mask, a container of hand sanitizer, gloves, photos of people who … Read more
Being Single During the Covid Crisis
Being single and living alone has its challenges even under normal circumstances. But it is particularly difficult during the Covid pandemic with the necessity to socially distance and shelter in place. For single people, these continuing restrictions disrupt regular human … Read more