What’s so important about boundaries, anyway? Why is this even a subject of interest to me? It all boils down to – do I respect who I am? Do I respect who you are? My true respect for you directly correlates to my respect for myself. I remember growing up, it seemed to my immature... Learn More

Scene: Sitting behind a fence, baseball tournament for 10 year olds playing their hearts out. Meanwhile I’m running through a list of “behaviors” that will help the Chargers win – yelling encouragement, saying specific things, not saying anything, practicing being calm/cool/collected/trusting, muttering predictions that will hopefully happen, walking away in case I’m bringing bad juju... Learn More

Background: Growing up, profanity was considered punishable by quarantine. Included in all the normal profane words were: darn, damn, and “buns” (when referencing a person’s backside). My mother’s oft-heard litany, “Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcibly.” (Spencer Kimball quote I know by heart.) When traveling with my grandparents and... Learn More

Tom Parish instigated my blog, saying, “I’ll set it up, all you have to do is write.” Hmmmm Several years later, he added his voice to others, saying, “Write a book.” Double Hmmmmm. It seems that others now have the need to create projects for me – “make an MP3 out of your book” –... Learn More

Universe:  How are you doing with your 2019 Intention to see life through the lens of “sacred?”                  Me: Did you really have to start off with such a literal Bang?! Universe: Say more.                               ... Learn More

Sacred/Morbid In my meditation today, what became crystal clear is that I have choice – I actually can view my life through the lens of “all is sacred” … or, only those things I like are sacred, the things I don’t like are morbid in some way …. or, it’s all morbid, really. (I really... Learn More