If You Lose, Are You Really a Loser?

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Winners are held in high regard and loses, well… It seems obvious – We compete to win – when you win, you get the prize. But sometimes you can win bigger by losing. What?! There are times to be competitive. Come on, we’ve all those moments when all we want to do is humiliate our [...]

Autumn in the Air

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus As much as I love the Southern California Summers, Autumn always stirs a little something in my soul. It gets me thinking about chilly nights, harvests, fires in my wood stoves… What about the beach, shorts and sun. Seems like summer [...]

A Hummingbird Morning

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Hummingbirds are found only in the western hemisphere, so they are absent from the traditional fairy tales, legends, and myths of European and African Americans. There is, however, a rich supply of stories about these tiny birds in Native American mythology. Mayan legend says that the Hummingbird is actually the sun in disguise who is [...]

The Magic of Bubbles

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Do you remember the pure joy of blowing bubbles? When you do it as a “grown Up”, it’s still cool, isn’t it? Yep, sure is… What if someone figured out a way to make colored bubbles? Not each bubble reflecting the colors of the rainbow – but actual colored bubbles? Shimmering with all the colors [...]

A Precious Life

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This amazing poem by American Poet Mary Oliver showed up in my inbox today… Not only is it poignant and beautiful but it mirrors another quote (by Eleanor Roosevelt)  that I posted on Twitter today. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But Today is a gift, that’s why they call it the present!” If [...]

Are YOU Living Your Dream?

Dreams come in many shapes and sizes, don’t they? We all have them but do we really do enough to live into our dreams? Life is tricky. It requires negotiation and fearless navigation. The bills are due, the house needs work, and the kids need your attention. We seem to do all this at the [...]

My Travel Map

Thanks to 29Travels.com, I now have a travel map. Boy looking at it in this form sure makes me realize that there is still a whole lot of world still unexplored by me! If you want your own travel map, check out my new friend @ 29 Travels!

A Touch of Class

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Class… now isn’t that a topic? Class kind of goes along with grace. We can choose to walk through life gracefully or like the proverbial bull in the china shop. The choice is up to us. That’s really what it is isn’t it? A matter of choice? That leads me to a story I read [...]

Don’t Divorce Them!

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Ken Starr – remember him? The guy who not only led the witch hunt against Bill Clinton but the guy who published his report online with salacious and explicit depictions of sexual acts online where kids could read it… Well, now he’s back, hiding behind the veil of morality to do everything he can to [...]

The Art of Being You

Amazing isn’t it how people label their view of our identity. And how we label our opinion of others… This makes sense, of course, it helps us organize and categorize people we know. George Hamilton is “Tan”, Farrah has the hair, Dean Martin had his martini and Pam Anderson has big… well you get the [...]