by Amy McLaughlin-Margolis | Jan 22, 2022 | Expert Advice, Featured, Guest Writers
Happy New Year! And what a few years it’s been for all of us, individually and collectively as we navigate this pandemic and the unknown future of it together. I am sending you all so much love from my little desk in L.A. The new year usually brings with it...
by Dove Rose | Jan 16, 2022 | Expert Advice, Guest Writers
One Good Deed A Day My husband and I decided to set an intention to do at least one good deed a day and I want to invite you to join us. We were on a walk and discussing how we can do good in this life. Sometimes it is the simple things; the anonymous, the tiny...
by Kate Fuglei | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Guest Writers
Holiday Past For nearly ten years our Army son was not home during the holidays. Sometimes it was because it was his turn to take over guard duty at the base so colleagues who had children could share the holiday with their little ones. At other times it was because...
by Michaela Klundt | Jan 10, 2022 | Education, Guest Writers
The Start of a New Chapter Graduating college during a pandemic is an accomplishment in itself. I was high on this achievement and ready to take on the world. After graduating, I had a perfect plan I was ready to put into action: I would finish college, apply to...
by Kate Fuglei | Dec 21, 2021 | Guest Writers
Family “Pardon me for talking while you’re interrupting.” This snarky comment was often used in my family of origin as a verbal jab, an aggressive reminder to listen. We were a large, boisterous, loud family of story-tellers and attention-seekers. One of my...
by Erika Satie | Dec 12, 2021 | Guest Writers
Crave The Love Have you taken the time to really listen to what your heart is trying to tell you, and have you ever noticed just how much we crave loving ourselves, even when that seems to be the last thing on our list to do each day? Daily, we are bombarded with the...
by Aman Majmudar | Dec 8, 2021 | Education, Guest Writers
My math teacher, strict and officious, was looking for me. That morning we’d finished a back-to-school math test. He seldom looked for his students after tests, so it must have been serious. I was worried. I’d actually enjoyed the exam. It gave me a chance to see...
by Cheryl Farrell | Nov 27, 2021 | Guest Writers, Social Issues
Guest contributor Cheryl Farrell finds a metaphor for life in temporary housing. Many of life’s changes come with an uneasy transition period—that state of limbo between where we are now and where we end up. Even the changes we want to occur have this unnerving stage....
by Kate Fuglei | Nov 14, 2021 | Featured, Guest Writers
California Three years ago, when my husband was offered a job in Brooklyn, we jumped at the chance. We’d lived in Greenwich Village years ago, before our two sons were born. Before we’d moved to Studio City. Before the friendships made through years of parenting,...
by Natalie Soriano | Nov 4, 2021 | Guest Writers, Uncategorized
I am a champion for change… when it comes to everybody else When someone tells me about a desire they have, I immediately start “What If” Upping for them, and all my creative energy flows in the direction of their dreams. I will hold that space and I feel the...
by Jeanette DuBois | Nov 2, 2021 | Guest Writers
I planted one foot in front of the other, feeling into each step as I allowed my hips and arms to swing wide. Breathing in deeply, slowly, my lungs filled up with the crisp fall air. I could smell the prior day’s rain in the damp leaves on the ground around me, and...
by Kathlene McGovern | Oct 25, 2021 | Expert Advice, Guest Writers
“Being an inhabitant almost in every garden, it is so well known, it needs no description.” ~ Lavender and John Gerard (Herball 1597) For centuries herbalists, healers, writers, even saints (hello, Hildegard of Bingham) have extolled the benefits of lavender for...
by Cheryl Farrell | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured, Guest Writers
Guest contributor Cheryl Farrell shares her challenge with selecting words to describe sensuality beyond physical attraction. I love words. People like me are called logophiles, from the Greek logo- (word) and –phile (lover of). The English language has a bounty of...
by Jean Trebek | Oct 15, 2021 | Charities, Featured, Guest Writers
The Power of Women Clean Water… something that many of us take for granted… yet there are people all around the world suffering from water vulnerability. A trio of women decided to do something about it and created The Waterbearers, a non-profit...
by Kate Fuglei | Oct 11, 2021 | Featured, Guest Writers
My husband and I had ticked off from our list the sites of Florence and Venice. We headed to La Spezia, an unremarkable town that was the base for exploring the famous Cinque Terra, a series of five small Italian towns perched like tiny gems above the Ligurian Sea. ...
by Natalie Soriano | Oct 9, 2021 | Guest Writers
What do I know about Sensuality? Sensuality. Ugh. I think I’ll just skip this month and write something for November. Those were my exact thoughts when I saw the theme for this month. What do I know about sensuality? My attempt at being sexy (or rather avoiding it...
by Kate Fuglei | Sep 17, 2021 | Guest Writers
My aunt and uncle owned a funeral home in Omaha, Nebraska. They belonged to a country club with a sparkly pool. Sometimes they vacationed in Europe. Our family vacationed on a lake in Iowa. We rented a two-room cabin with torn screens and questionable plumbing. ...
by Natalie Soriano | Aug 28, 2021 | Guest Writers
I’ve lived most of my life like Mystique from the X-men movies… … morphing into whoever I thought the people around me needed me to be. I imagine that’s what it must be like trying to play every part in a movie – exhausting. A part of me gets...
by Cheryl Farrell | Aug 17, 2021 | Featured, Guest Writers, Social Issues
On the theme of boundaries, guest contributor Cheryl Farrell believes that setting boundaries should not prevent the good from coming in. In a moment of exasperation with a long-time friend, I asked, “Who have you become? Who are you?” I’ve known “Mary” for more than...
by Kate Fuglei | Aug 9, 2021 | Featured, Guest Writers
I grew up in the Midwest with lots of aunts and uncles around. They dropped in constantly. There were no dates made or appointment planned. They just showed up, sometimes with a box of doughnuts or sometimes a gallon of ice cream. My mother would make a pot of...
