ABC’s 20/20 speaks with Alex and Jean Trebek
While 20/20 focuses on Alex and Jean this Thursday January 2nd on ABC -Jean speaks about the interview.
The Gifts in the Darkness
So often the best gifts are the ones that arrive in the darkness. These are the gifts crafted, unseen and unnoticed by us. Something is changing, something is being done. These are the gifts that often surprise us the most.
Four Gifts I’ve Given Myself
The theme this month is Gifts, so Alison turns inward and after much hand-wringing comes up with fours gifts she has given herself.
Buying a Gift for That Challenging Person
We all have one – someone who is challenging to buy for. Jean shares how she deals with buying that special something for that special someone.
Holding It Together—And Each Other—During The Holidays
Jeanette DuBois beautifully looks at all the sides of family, triggers and renewed relationships in this month’s Morning Mimosa.
Friend Family
In our small Studio City living room, we have two Thanksgiving tables set up. It is crowded. It is fun. It is loud. You have to suck in your stomach to squeeze around a corner to get to the kitchen for more sweet potatoes. And it is full of …
Family Traditions
Traditions and family go together! Jean shares some holiday moments that bring her right back to her childhood.
Life After Death
There was a weekend this month that has changed me. It was the weekend of my beautiful sister-in-laws’ Celebration of Life. That Saturday my husband and I flew in to Phoenix with extended family. We arrived in time to change and head over to the place we all were...
The insidewink Story
There is so much noise, so much news that it can all feel overwhelming. We hear it all the time – “I can’t watch it anymore!” We get it. Being inundated with so much can leave us feeling strained and hopeless. insidewink is doing something about that.
Getting Through Changes
Sometimes Life’s changes can be challenging. JeanTrebek examines the transitions that we all experience and helps us find ways to ease through them.
The Whole Left Behind
Jeanette’s heart is left whole, although with a hole, as she struggles to say goodbye to a dear family member.
I have lived a Full Life
Sometimes you get a message from the universe, as Alison learns, from an old mattress on the side of the road and some spray paint…
Letting Go…
“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” Alex and I had a home on Lake Nacimiento in Central California for close to 20 years. This was our little “get away,” where we were nurtured by Mother Nature herself. Bittersweet is the perfect word to describe the feeling I have about …
Calming the Kitchen Table Chaos
How do you get to a place of peace when the storm swirls around you? Our very own Jeanette DuBois, looks at her mom and the eye of the storm at home in her kitchen.
Peaceful Scars
An 8 year old boy bravely exposes an alternative type of peace. “I can’t stop thinking about that boy.
He owned it. There was no cover up, there was no…”
Peace Within
Jean finds the key to inner peace through communication and questioning her beliefs. “I was raised ‘to always keep the peace’ and ‘to not rock the boat’, and the best one…”
The Peace Below The Waves
Jeanette, alone on a beach, finds the enchantment of peace.
Walking On Water
I actually had to do a double take to make sure I was seeing her.“Are you OK?” I shouted down to her. “Yep. I’m fine.” She responded as if it was the most normal, natural thing to be strolling along this cement river.
True Freedom
“I ask myself, what is true freedom? And, what is it that I need to be free from?” Jean poses the idea that true Freedom comes from within and that this freedom is our divine right.
Tune In Tomorrow
I heard his unique chuckle in the background before he said loudly; “That’s just today, tomorrow is another story!” He was aware at that point he had very little time left. And yet, he still lived by that same attitude he’d had all his life…