I have flown through many skies and deeply enjoyed 'the 35,000 feet perspective'. Flying has allowed me some rich experiences. My poem "Flight" shares profound thoughts that flowed through me during one of many journeys between Europe and Africa.
This past September, on my way back from the mystical land of Peru, I took the above [...]
As more and more news unfolds now and in events yet to come, we realize the vital need to enter an inner place where we retreat and be still. Immersed by what is happening all around us; what we hear and see is sometimes very painful. Many stare at images of despair not knowing what [...]
Melissa, now in her 30s, wrote this note to her Mom (Nancy) when she was five or six years old. The now framed, pencil written original hangs in my friend Nancy's kitchen. We couldn't get a clear enough picture of it, so just imagine these words in a child's handwriting.
Could Melissa have been any clearer? [...]
On New Year's Day, I left early in the morning with my husband and his best friend to attend an evening marriage celebration in New Jersey –a very different start to my new year.
The Mehndi Ceremony…a Pakistani wedding tradition… took seven hours (no exaggeration). I watched and enjoyed many beautiful dances and performances. There [...]
This is the day…THIS is the day I will stop smoking, I will not overeat, I will not procrastinate, I will be kinder and go to church regularly…there are endless promises being made all over our planet on this very day.
We are making them to God, ourselves, others… we are spewing them out because many [...]
