I Am FIERCE

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I logged into my infrequently used Twitter account one day and found a flurry of messages congratulating me on my nomination. Nomination for what??? Apparently I had been nominated for a FIERCE Woman Award. I was caught off guard by the nomination…and I was touched that the nomination was in the category most meaningful for me: FIERCE Woman -Mom Extraordinaire. A warm feeling gushed over me and I was surprised by the amount of joy I felt with the nomination. My self worth is not « Continue »

A Return to God

Return to God

I was at Louise Hay’s “I Can Do It” conference and during one of the meal breaks, my friend Lee Horbachewski and I joined a couple of women we had never met  before for dinner. When I asked one of our new dinner mates how she was enjoying the conference, one of the women said that she was surprised that it had so much 'God' talk. She thought it would be more ‘spiritual’. That made me think .... Isn’t it the same thing? When did I become comfortable saying God? I « Continue »

Viral Love

Michael Buble

She left her friends room at the hospice asking herself, what more can I do? What else would bring her friend joy? Then, in a flash she remembered a conversation they had when they were working on her dying friends will and, in jest, her friend had said “ Have Michael Buble sing to me” That memory flash ignited something in her. She felt instant renewal. Could she do this? Could she somehow get Michael Buble to sing for her dying friend? Now that the fire was lit, nothing was going to « Continue »

I Wanna Write a Book… Someday

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Have you ever uttered those words? Have you ever dared to think those words? And...? Where is your book? I silently wished to be an author and then, I tepidly said those words out loud and then, YEARS later I did write and publish my book Thank You for Leaving Me. It wasn’t the book I thought I was going to write, but it was the book that needed to be written. And because it was the book that needed to be written, it came out rapidly. Thrilled that the book has been received « Continue »