What’s Your Dream The classic film Pretty Woman ends with a gentleman shouting out the above question…what’s your dream?  Ponder that for a moment. This is a week of extremes for me…my birthday….my book release and the one-year anniversary of my beloved husband’s...

TRIBUTE TO LOVE For those who have spent any time in the San Francisco Bay Area, the name of Cecil Williams is well known.  At 94 years of age, Cecil made his transition this week after a life well lived.  He provided San Francisco with many challenges over the years...

Friendship-The Juice of Life Friendship is both a deep topic and a wide topic.  It couldn’t possibly be defined and described in one blog…probably needs an entire book.  I am going to try and provide at least a teaser on this juice of life because I feel like it is...

All Roads Lead to Dog I have been mentioning for a bit that I have a book coming out in the next few weeks.  Its title is the same as this blog.  In a way, it’s a play on words..I will let you decide what the play is.  The photo that accompanies this blog is a Norwich...

One Problem-One Solution Recently listening to one of my favorite teachers, I discovered something that I surely should have known, but somehow missed.  He was offering the idea that all of the personal problems we might face as well as the world problems in our face-...

SO MUCH LOVE Some years ago, a dear friend (who reads this blog) and I were discussing the tenets of Judaism versus Christianity.  It boiled down to this – in the Jewish tradition – good works and mending the world make up the teaching of a righteous Jew.  In...

Forgiveness – the key to transformation The best definition I ever heard of Forgiveness came via Dr. George Pransky- a Three Principles Therapist.  He said Forgiveness is going back to the way things were before the offense. In other words, truly forgiving was as if...

Let it Be-Decisions and Dilemmas- This is a period of decisions and dilemmas…we are once again embroiled in the pre-election craziness of a year of voting.  We are approaching tax time which always seems to provoke more confusion and concern.  Then there are the...

You are an artist- One of the challenges we can face is seeing ourselves as artists- using our life as a canvas or using a real canvas-either way it is time to free the artist within.  Perhaps you are like me, you loved to draw as a child, that is until someone said...

Black History Month- As February closes, I wanted to dedicate a blog to Black History month.  The contributions in every industry from science to art, have been graciously gifted by our black brothers and sisters.  Sometimes against great odds. Sometimes the...