Many years ago, I was in a Slough of Despond, as described in Pilgrim's Progress. One of those times when nothing was going right, and I was believing that I was a waste of space. I phoned two different friends of mine, neither of whom was home. Then I called Bob LeClair at the Houston... Learn More

Tonight we had dinner with the leadership of the MTL Pay It Forward Team. While the food was delicious, it paled in comparison to the spiritual feast. Richard Perry (Senior Trainer of the More To Life program) was in usual form – present, connecting, putting pieces together that sparked the heart. Rhonda Schlatter (Training Supervisor... Learn More

To my knowledge, there isn't a graceful way to integrate a new growth edge. By definition, a growth edge is something that I already know I am not graceful in actualizing. Giving feedback to someone else that is likely to be hard to hear is not something in which I used to be very graceful;... Learn More

One of the things of which I am most glad in my life was telling my mother that I hoped I would be as good a mother as she was. She was born to be a gateway for children (there were 8 of us) and to nurture them into adulthood. From her I learned to... Learn More

In a time long ago, in South Lake Tahoe, a beautiful resort area, I did a one day ropes course. One of our ventures was the tyrolean traverse – which means dangling parallel from a rope which is stretched between two mountains of similar height, and pulling yourself along the rope from one to the... Learn More

This book was given to me by Diana Makens, my good friend and support partner. It looked interesting, and I put it down and read something else. A few days later, I picked it up again, and started reading. I read this book in sections – unusual for me. After I got past the part... Learn More