Please Yourself I was at a Christmas Eve gathering at the home of a couple of my dearest friends. There was joy and celebration. Good food. Twinkling lights. Candles. People smiling and being kind to each other, all dressed up in their party clothes. When I was...

We all have a place inside of us that holds our emotions. We may have immediate access to this cache of feelings or we may have hidden them away so long ago, we forgot they were even there. Inspiritual circles, it’s said that we are never given more than we can...

We are like islands inthe sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. - - William James In 1975, my second marriage fell apart. Technically my husband left me, but when he walked out the door, I realized that I had made it happen. He had retreated into...

I got a text recently to go to a book signing for someone I knew. I couldn’t imagine why she wanted me there. She had been treating me rudely for quite a while, for no reason that I was aware of. I had asked her why she was angry at me and she claimed to have no...

Many people are fascinated with ghostwriting, the idea of sitting in a room with a celebrity and being privy to their secrets. Their disappointments and fears. Writing in somebody else’s voice. Seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. It takes skill andpractice...