Did Your Chocolate Valentines Deliver What You Needed?

Is Valentine’s Day a necessity? Have you ever asked yourself that question? What if the greeting card companies had never created Valentine’s Day? Would you still believe you were loved? What does one day matter? Why do so many put so much stock into what happens, what they were given, where they went, and what they were surprised with? The majority of those are women. Why are the men not getting special  flowers or golf passes or special beers or taken out to dinner? If your mate is abusive the other 364 days a year but does everything right on Valentine’s day, is that good? Does that get them a pass for the next year of abuse? read...

Mindful of One family: Remembering a Life with Sadness

Funny how life’s reflections start when you learn a family member has passed.  Yesterday I learned that my cousin Joanne had passed.  You may say it’s just a cousin.  She was however also someone’s daughter and someone’s sister.  I spent a lot of time with her when we were kids.  At one point, when my mom and dad got a divorce, my mom,  sister and I moved in with Joanne’s family which included her mom and older sister, Loretta. Her father was my godfather who had passed before we moved in.  So for a few years we all lived as one family. We were childhood playmates and schoolmates. read...