“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”                                       - - - Albert Einstein When I was a kid, we had a rustic summer guest house called The Tide Rock House in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. There was a comforting salt water smell, soothing pastel...

  Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - - - Oscar Wilde   Back in the early seventies, I starred in a movie about the Vietnam War, the first acting job I ever got. After we finished a scene that took place in a commune, the director asked the sound man to...

“Hope is the quiet conviction that what happens us does not have to define us.”                                                        . . Anonymous   Hope is a choice. That’s how I view it. Viktor Frankl, neurologist, psychologist, and famously a concentration camp...

 “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”                                     ---Buddhist Proverb There is a consensus opinion that “being in the present moment” is an effective way to deal with anxiety and depression. But what if the present moment sucks? I was...

When I was a child of seven, I once stared at my reflection at an oval mirror hanging on the wall. I liked what I saw and I told my mother proudly, “I’m pretty.” “Don't be vain,” was her response. It’s ironic that I went on to become a professional ballerina, a career...

Many religions describe some form of heaven and hell as places that exist in the afterlife. Places where you go after you die. If you were a “good person,” you got to go to heaven, an Edenic peaceful place with angels and beautiful music and good food and love and...