Healing doesn’t happen in a straight line. You get the flu, you fall into a downward spiral and you feel awful. A few days later, you start to feel better, you go on an upswing and you’re relieved that it’s over. But the next day, you feel badly again and you’re back...
A woman I used to know, Cynthia, was in the business of helping celebrities prepare to be on camera. They were accustomed to performing in front of thousands of people, they had reached excellence in their craft, but unscripted appearances and interviews on talk shows...
When you choose yourself, you start attracting everythingthat is also choosing you.” . . . Anonymous I hadn’t written someone else’s memoir for years. In the past, I did one after the...
“Be yourself,” said novelist Oscar Wilde. “Everyone else is already taken.” My Aunt Ruth was an avid moviegoer. When I was small, she took me to Disney films and musicals at our local movie theater. She bought a buttered popcorn for herself and a Fudgsicle or a...
There are about two dozen of my book covers in frames of all shapes and sizes hanging on the office wall behind my desk. A friend suggested I hang them up to remind me of who I am and what I’ve done when I doubt myself. I was hesitant to take ownership. “They belong...
I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries. – – – Simon and Garfunkel Back in 2016, I was feeling sad and isolated. I had a new writing project which usually fills me up with exciting anticipation. Not that...
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