Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.                                       - - - Oscar Wilde                                                            One of the most destructive things we can do is compare ourselves to other people. I do it. Not...

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...

Do You Believe in Magic?     There are only two ways to live your life. As though nothing is a miracle, Or as though everything is a miracle.                                                                         - - - Albert Einstein  In 1957, when I was eight, my...

“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...