International Women’s Day is the day set aside to celebrate and focus on empowering women from all around the globe. It’s a day that we come together as the female tribe to inspire, to challenge one another to become our best and to change the way the world views and…
It’s been days since our nation was once again devastated by the news of yet another senseless tragic school shooting on the campus of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. 17 innocent people who had promising futures now forever lost. I’m still heartbroken. I’m still in shock. But most of all I am…
This post was originally published at Thrive Global A friend of mine recently posted a quote on Facebook by the late Martin Luther King Jr. that caused me to pause and reflect on his powerful and wise words. The words spoken long ago by this great man can be adapted…
It’s funny how with each “year around the sun” we celebrate, it never feels like we’re that much older than the year before. However, when we happen to be turning the “BIG” 30, 40, 50 or more, that’s when it hits us that time seems to have gone by at…
Fear, we all have it. Even Superman has it – his fear of kryptonite. The fear of heights, fear of creepy crawly things, fear of public humiliation, fear of dying, and fear of anything and everything you can name can rear its ugly head and create unsettling feelings when you…
Oops, I did it again …. I posted something on my personal FB page that happened to offend. This time I’ve seemed to have upset another fragile soul who didn’t quite get the point nor understood the tongue and cheek humor that sometimes (OK, many times) is woven into…
How often do we believe the negative things that have been drummed into our psyche instead of believing that we are capable and valuable? We may believe we are not capable of doing something because we have had to face set backs and disappointments which make us doubt our true…
It was just about 11 pm and I had drifted off to sleep knowing I had to rise early for my flight back to America when suddenly I was awakened by the buzzing of my cell phone. With a bit of nervous hesitation, I peered at the caller ID and…
After months of waiting, I, along with millions of other Americans, sat nervously perched in front of the TV screen watching the results of what was to be a “historic” election night for our country. Between channel surfing network election coverage and trying to figure out why CNN, ABC, NBC…
15 years ago, September 11th started out like any other day. Children were on their way to school, people were on their way to work, and errands were being run; life was simply going through its daily motions – nothing ordinary, so we thought. 15 years ago, September 11th also…
