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I have not traveled internationally for quite awhile and I quickly found out how much things had changed on my trip to Toronto, Canada. As a young girl, I first left the United States with my [...]

Kim will be presenting a workshop based on her book “Listen for the Whispers: Coping with Grief and Learning to Live Again” for the Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation‘s Camp Widow [...]

After crouching on a lime-green foam kneeling pad, he pushed with all of his might against the 6’x6’ thick concrete cover. A long wooded pole that was going to be used as a dipstick lay on the [...]

 Paint wears off. Lacquer chips. Stain fades. But underneath them all, the truth resides Oblivious to its future strength, a seedling sprouts and blindly pushes through the soil. Its new leaves [...]

My high school years were the first opportunity to earn an actual paycheck. Mom and Dad helped to stock my first life cupboard with a hearty supply of high expectations and a boatload of work [...]

I did not have a very good rest last Friday night. You see my mind is like a giant trunk.  All week long, my deepest, most pensive moments and daily deeds are precisely organized by date and time [...]

Bears do “it”. Some rodents do “it”. The fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar does “it”. And I have done “it” too. What is “it”? Hibernation! This state of inactivity in the animal kingdom lowers [...]

I feel an odd lightness as soon as the winter solstice passes in December. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this phenomenon manifests itself in a late dawn, an early sunset, and a [...]

My bright pink polish is not effectively camouflaging the traces of soil wedged at the base of my nails. I can still see the dark thin lines of dirt through its light coating. After a whole [...]