We like to keep birthday wishes light-hearted. Still, many of us have had a difficult time in the last few years with illness, loss, uncertain employment, and isolation due to COVID-19. Birthdays can make distances feel even more significant. Making the effort to wish your friend a happy...
Last year on my 60th birthday, perhaps naively, I sat down to figure out if there was anything I could do to increase my odds for a healthy happy rest of my life. My parents hadn't fared so well after they hit 60. "Judging by my parents--that last quarter of life doesn't look...
Oh. There’s the rub. I really can’t do it all. And if you have your children at home with you, you can’t either (unless you want to damage the relationship you have with your babies, to which I say, what’s the point of keeping them home then?). So decide. Crafts or crad...
The wolf in sheep’s clothing is a biblical reference to the devil. (Perhaps our wood cutter could be wearing a woollen cloak, which he has strewn off perhaps.) In the bible a wolf appears as the Devil’s agent in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: ‘Beware of false prophets, which come ...
The greatest gift of forgiveness is not to the forgiven, but to the forgiver. It is for you to cherish and feel and enjoy. It isyourfreedom you are offering yourself. Forgiveness does not opentheircell door; it opensyours! You’ve Held on Long Enough ...
“However, it was the way Harry went about cutting ties, his laser-focused determination to wreak an almost Biblical vengeance on his family, the determination to spill his guts at any cost, that has truly ruptured bonds with those—both family and friends—who once loved and do...