Just before walking in the bush with year-old lions, the Ranger warned, “Do not go off on your own. Lions regard solitary animals as easy prey.” I saw it in action. I was beginning to relax on this walk, when I noticed one of the lions went stock still, every cell on high alert, demeanor... Learn More

Feeling “Unsafe” Lately three people have told me they feel “unsafe” around certain people or in specific circumstances. Examining that feeling in myself, a memory bubbled up of feeling “unsafe” with some of my pre-divorce friends, who, post-divorce, never asked if I was OK. There was no communication, hence disconnection … ample fodder for my... Learn More

My life was just the way I wanted it. Which seems to be an invitation for life to mess with me. Out of the blue – Lifeshock. Reality shook me out of my happy place. Being of sound mind and body, I tend to resist unasked-for change (unless I like it). Two years ago, I... Learn More

Scene: KUDUS RUS (http://www.kudusrus.co.za/) – a game reserve in the northwestern province of South Africa, with Isabel Vidal and Cremilde Geddes, friends from Johannesburg; and Sylvia Hebert, my friend from Houston. When we arrived for a 2-day retreat into the African bush, always healing for me, we were told our options – one of which was... Learn More

Rafa Berriochoa sent me a blurb written by a Spanish news journalist that stated that “Both Europe and America love what they see as our quaint backwardness …” As an American, I can absolutely say that I do not in any way see Spain as either quaint or backward. I see a country divided on... Learn More

What makes a winner? How do they operate differently from whiners? Hurricane Harvey, aka HH, has made the distinction clear. Whiners get stuck in a mindtalk loop – “This wasn’t supposed to happen! This always happens to me (never to other people). No matter what I do, I can never get ahead.” The “reasons why”... Learn More