For those of you who are reading my blog for the first time I want to assure you that there are very good reasons that I say the things that I do here, so if at first you are offended…read on, and you might find that I make good points. For those of you who […]
Nature AND Nurture
I was born a gifted child. This is something that I always was and it never occurred to me that there was anything “special” about me or that there would be specific challenges for my parents, especially my mother, who was with me the most as my father travelled for weeks on end with his […]
What Lies Beneath
It has often been said that when we express anger, what is beneath that anger is something more akin to fear. So if, for example, someone is angry that they got cut off at an intersection, then they were ACTUALLY afraid of something…such as, say, being hit by a vehicle. I have often found this […]
Something from Nothing
My grandmother used to say, “You can do anything you want with your life…or you can do nothing with it.” There have been numerous times in my life when I have felt that I am doing nothing with it. I think that this is because we live in a world that acknowledges only parts of […]
The Veils are Thin
We hear that expression a lot this time of year. “The veils are thin!”. But what does that mean? Is this even important? How does it work? Well, hopefully I can shed a wee bit of light on that topic for you. This expression comes from very old traditions that viewed the line between life […]