Personal Peace
I made a decision on November 5th, 2024. I decided to stop reading any news related to politics. None. Cold turkey. Full stop. I chose personal peace over curiosity. And guess what? It’s working for
I made a decision on November 5th, 2024. I decided to stop reading any news related to politics. None. Cold turkey. Full stop. I chose personal peace over curiosity. And guess what? It’s working for
This year, I want you to practice trusting yourself. If you’re going to trust yourself, you’ve got to know yourself. But you don’t have to figure it all out before you get started. You don’t
Summons Last night I dreamedten thousand grandmothersfrom the twelve hundred corners of the earthwalked out into the gapone breath deepbetween the bullet and the fleshbetween the bomb and the family. They told me we cannot
This has been my Christmas message for the past few years. It’s still true. So here it is again. Yes, it’s that time of year…Christmas. There is a lot of joy around. Happy and bright.
I was getting my workout on the stationary bike at the Y this week. The bike is set up behind four treadmills. No one was there when I first arrived. Pretty soon though, an older
I was in the habit of talking to myself using this phrase: “What’s wrong with you, Paula?” When something didn’t work out, when I messed up, when I thought I should have known better I
Do you believe in good and evil? Some days it’s hard to be in the world and not see these two competing forces. It seems there is a constant combat: the forces of good and
What I really want is to understand. I mean, I want to understand people and how things can get into such an awful mess. Is that too much to ask? I realize I won’t like
I wrote this poem last week. The destruction from Hurricane Helene was heavy on my mind. It reminded me that you just never know. Instead of feeling hopeless, maybe we let this simple fact teach