The Bad Date . . . a nightmare from the past!

This was my first attempt at entering a writing contest back in September of 2007 . . . and it was voted first place . . . back in the days of Yahoo 360 blogs.   It is unfortunately a true story . . . one of my first adventures with online dating after becoming a widow . . . I would say...

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Emotional Responses

Our emotions can lead to discovery of issues within ourselves that we may not be willing to face.  However, sweeping bad feelings "under the rug" and ignoring them will not make it better.  Quite the contrary, since they can grow and fester with disastrous consequences. Bad situations...

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The miracle of change . . . and boredom

The feeling of boredom is often misunderstood and  can actually mean we need to look under  the layers for change. Sometimes we feel that things aren't moving along fast enough for us and that the world is passing us by. It may be that time seems to stand still and that we are simply...

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Valuing Someone Gives Meaning

Showing someone that you value them resonates the soul within them and makes them feel loved and appreciated. The need for love and being valued is so strong because it gives us meaning, and meaning is achieved through being of value to others in relationships. Valuing someone helps them...

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Meaning in life

Meaning doesn’t lie in things; meaning lies in us.  When we attach a value to things that aren’t love and cannot love— the money, the car, the house—we’re loving things that can’t love us back. We’re searching for meaning in the meaningless, and this will always cause pain....

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The Gift of Anger

You know the feeling. It's that rage you get when someone cuts you off on the highway; the one where you just want to floor it and flip the bird. Anger is a corrosive emotion that can run off with your mental and physical health. So do you hold it in? Or do you let it all hang out? Yet, anger doesn't...

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Tending the Emotions

In the midst of a breakdown,it is important that we allow it to happen,rather than fight it or try to shut down.Most of us have had the experience of holding back our emotions for such a long period of time that when they finally come out, we have something resembling a breakdown. For a certain period...

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