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Sometimes, we all need to stop, smell the flowers and hit pause. With our limitations on social gatherings, I am at risk of getting too introspective and deep into the weeds with my Grassroots [...]

A year ago, I offered a “Gratitude Goes Live” online series via Zoom. The goal was to connect people to each other and find reasons to be grateful, even when COVID was separating us [...]

I grew up in a family where admitting that I was feeling bored or sad, was a sure way to be handed a rake or a broom or a cleaning cloth. Rather than admit to my mother that I was feeling lost or [...]

I was sitting with a group of women – yes, socially distanced and outside and my feet were freezing, when one of them said to me, “You must be really pleased.” I had no idea what she was talking [...]

Happy International Women’s Day on Monday March 8, 2020. This is an acknowledgement and a note of appreciation to all of the women in my life. Thank you! And here are a couple of [...]

When was the last time you heard the expression: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater? Whenever a conversation approaches a threshold or a pivot point and change seems inevitable, [...]

Gratitude has a lot to do with remembering and today, I am once again, or rather still, writing about Kindness – but this time for my upcoming book. I published a Kindness article inspired [...]

Recently, I have been asking and listening to stories about kindness and gratitude. During COVID, it is obvious that our kind-hearted acts need a bit more courage, patience, perspective and [...]

Lucky me! If I am sounding like a broken record, at least you know I am consistent, persistent and convinced that I have a message that bears repeating. Over and over again. It’s still dark [...]

I gave myself the word ‘Gratitude’ on December 31, 2019 with a commitment to research the topic – the science,  its benefits, my relationship to it and how to do it better. What [...]