Love transcends time and space — As sure as the sun rises each morning, I know with certainty she will come. She’ll glide over mountain tops — skim the ocean blue. Test her wings with doves in flight to land within my view. Anyone close to my heart who passes over will find a portal back…

Love has everything to do with anything LOVE can seldom be returned in the exact manner of which it is given. LOVE is the singular reason for all joy and pain. LOVE is all encompassing in that it can heal a wound or prolong the suffering. LOVE is never enough…

A brother’s dying wish is the gift that keeps giving — Some stories breathe to take shape through other people — to deliver an extraordinary message of the human spirit that can motivate us all. This story was told to me twice. …

Christmas past and the bittersweet memory of a lost recipe — A thin sliver of creamy lemon goodness sat waiting, smudged in a frosty, glass pie dish. The last piece hidden behind a large container in the back of the refrigerator and her last pie. Every holiday, my mother-in-law would bake the entire family’s favorite dessert using lemons from her own…

Is it mandatory for THIS or THAT to be linear? — 1️⃣Resolutions or No Resolutions? “The best laid plans of mice and men go astray.” ~ Shakespeare No resolutions. When my dad explained this quote to me at the age of 15 within the context of his life, I took it literally. Neither he nor mom could stay in one place…

Happy Birthday Dr. King — It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Every year, I elect to take Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a vacation or sick day to commemorate in service…

Our collective rain dance worked — at least mine did. The rain gods finally heard California’s cries. Now, flushed in clear precious liquid, quenching the voracious thirst of our mountains and hills, carpeted in sparkling emerald green. There’s no green like earth green. Trees stand upright — praising the clouds…

Children are in desperate need — No one can deny we’re living in radical egocentric times where the basics of human decency are eroding quicker than planet earth itself — manners, common courtesy, and respect no longer the norm, nor the expectation. Which is worse — that we’ve lowered our expectations of each other or we’re…

There are things we shouldn’t say in a text. Is text etiquette a thing or are we so desensitized that our concept of acceptable things to say is diminished? This only occurred to me after receiving bad news via text for the second time this year from the same person…