HUMMINGBIRD: MESSAGES FROM MY ANCESTORS: A MEMOIR WITH REFLECTION AND WRITING PROMPTS (An excerpt) BY DIANA RAAB (Modern History Press / January 2024) 1,590 word...

“A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is built for.” ~John Augustus Shedd Growing up in the Midwest in a traditional family steeped in Catholic values, safety was...

A Talk with Michael J. Gelb and Bruce Fertman,  authors of “Walking Well: A New Approach for Comfort, Vitality, and Inspiration...

“Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.” ~ Brené Brown, Daring Greatly Migraines. I’ve had them since I was five years old. Sometimes they’re bad, sometimes they’re really bad....

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~Dalai Lama In my mid-thirties, my active and adventuresome life as a broadcast journalist collapsed. It began...

There is no doubt we live in a world with constant distraction: beeping phones, ever-present social media, streaming services, constant noise, advertisements on every surface in every direction.But the numbers might be...

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. ~Wayne Dyer Driving home from another visit to the pediatrician, Mother reiterated how puny I was: “You’re just...

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