“A hearty laugh is more powerful than any other single item in overcoming challenges and driving away gloom than any other single thing.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder A routine scan that I had when I was pregnant with my second daughter, Grace, revealed that the fetus had a very unusual and potentially life-threatening cardiac condition. After…

“When it is clear that the objectives cannot be achieved, rather than adjusting the goals themselves, alter the action steps.” ~Confucius My current job is temporary while I look for something more permanent, and the process has not been simple. For the first few months after I left my work — a position that I…

“Ignore your past mistakes. Remember the teachings.” ~Dalai Lama The year had at last arrived. After reaching the age of thirty, I felt as if I had really become a member of the “adult” population. I’d liked being in my twenties. After spending childhood years in an unstable environment with a narcissistic and alcoholic father,…

“When you get to the end of your rope, put a knot in it so you can hold on.” – Thomas Jefferson Have you ever woken up one morning and been completely unable to remember who you were? When I woke up each morning for the previous four years of my life, I had the…

“What if suffering, like love, is only a destination that courageous individuals choose to go to?” ~Glennon Doyle It is one of the biggest ironies in life that when things are going well, it looks like everything is going well. When life is difficult, everything appears to be difficult. This is the one that keeps…

It is not the things that happen to us that give us suffering; rather, it is the things that we say to ourselves about the things that happen. ~Pema Chodron You know the dreadful worry that we all have, the fear that something terrible will happen, and that our lives will never be the same…