Tagged lessons for the living

There was a time when apologies were made in person, where you looked someone in the eyes, admitted what you did was wrong, cruel, unintentional, or just stupid, and listened to their reactions, as difficult as they were to hear.

Stability, as we age, is more important than excitement. In Part I of this three-part series, I explained the role of stability in aging. In Part II...

We often try to isolate events in our lives from everything that precedes and follows it. The practice is delusional at best, destructive at it’s...

In some ways, our memories are like a herd of cattle on an open range; trying to go in whatever direction they choose. Unless they can be controlled...

Knowing what destructive thoughts are is one thing. Knowing how to stop them is another. In Part I of this three-part series, I maintained one form...

We want to be helpful to whose living with cancer, but often we don’t know how to transform compassionate intent into helpful behaviors. I...

In Part I of Family Conflict I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. There is an amazing...

In Part 1 of Grief Hierarchy, I presented the idea grief shouldn't be evaluated in terms of whose is greater. In Part 2, I introduced the notion...

THOUGHT OF THE DAY. I wrote an article on January 6, 2015 how thoughts are theoretical unless there is a conviction to act (Selma: Why I Write About...

THOUGHT OF THE DAY.  Yesterday we saw three seemingly unconnected events that shocked the world. The murder of Australians by an extremist in...