I was recently watching an inspiring documentary on Amazon Prime called “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.” I’ve always been a fan of his music. It helps me open my heart. I rested my eyes from time to time during that documentary and listened to the...

“When my husband Stephen died, I was living in a remote place with no people around so Ihad to learn to hold my own hand.”                                                                                      - - - Ondrea Levine Loss shows up in a lot of different...

I was fourteen when I left my home in Massachusetts and moved to Washington, D. C. to study ballet. My mother found a school on Wisconsin Avenue in D. C. that offered ballet and academic subjectsunder the same roof, the first of its kind in America, and I wanted to be...

“If you don't believe in any kind of magic or mystery, you’re as good as dead.”                         - - - Albert Einstein When I think of magic, I think about music. It has no physical presence and yet, it moves me. It soothes. It communicates and it heals. It...

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.                                                                                      - - Albert Einstein Being creative and innovative requires self-acceptance and the belief that what you have to say has value....

 “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” . . Jimi Hendrix. Back in the nineteen eighties, I volunteered at Chris Brownlie AIDS hospice where there were 26 beds and 26 dying men. This was before the life-saving cocktails when having HIV meant there wasn’t much time...