Your Authentic Self–Now

We have all had the experience of feeling like we just met with a person who we thought we knew, but somehow the encounter left us feeling like we just met with a stranger. Its an awful experience. We feel confused, sad, and even angry. The person who was there was not being their authentic

Caution as you move forward

We see the signs but I wonder, as I read them, about the deeper meaning we have waiting for us with each one of them. On a winding and hilly road, this comes before my eyes and I laugh a bit as I think that even in my automobile, I am going to exercise caution.

Epiphany time

My life is on a course of having prayers answered. I have prayed for humility, patience, and grace. I had people and events placed onto my path that have caused me to know more about these topics than what I could have ever imagined. The journey is not easy. However, it is one that I

Love Affairs

We shouldn’t deny it, everybody wants to fall in love in their life. Some people want to fall in love over and again and feel the passion of life in a multitude of ways and have the love affair be as much with life itself as it is with a life partner. All understandable. The thing about

Many layers of cousins reunite and commit

We agree that life is short and we want more time with one another. We agree that it is time to agree to come together more often.         We agree that the love runs deep and fun pours forth. We put our hands together and agree that we will live to be

Tears and joy all in one day

The day began as I departed from St Louis at dawn and drove to my home town of Chicago. Some people think the drive a horrid one, I love it. I am on the open road, enjoying the countryside, the old farms, the big sky, the rising sun, and the quiet. I trust my time

We’re not Polish, he said, we’re Austrian

My mom’s cousin, who is my second cousin, just died. He was my oldest living relative. He was a WWII veteran and a very faith filled man who had a sweetness and a tough to him that I was drawn to. We exchanged a lot of communications online. He was political and funny and dear.

Stress, strength, and coping

  It is vital for us to arise each morning and feel the confidence to make the day count, accomplish goals, and feel our capabilities. And yet there are a multitude of distractions and barriers that become challenges that reroute even our best of intentions. We explain to ourselves, and to others, the why of

New beginnings are more than possible

This is a week that many observe as Holy Week, me included in that category. And this week can be a great excuse for anyone, yes, any one, any where, at any moment in time. Each day is a new opening for a shift, for goodness to seep into your realm and take hold and

Strength Training: Total Life Fitness

Spring season has opened and you’re thinking that you want to take a walk, go for a run, wear a bathing suit and look buff. You want to wear clothing that is comfortable, not layers that hide your body that represents you have let yourself go. Sound familiar on some level? On many levels? When
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