Practicing joy takes effort.  Practicing anything takes a certain level of desire and commitment.  What brings us joy?  The answer is different for each person and then for each moment of the day . . . one moment something gives me great joy the next moment I’m annoyed by it . . . so I…

On vacation things so down and I’m able to see things differently–with a strange clarity and vision. I walked down the beach and I noticed that my path was not on the straight and narrow nor did I take the most direct path. That is true of my life, not just this particular walk . ….

On Friday’s I join a few other writers for an exercise.  Write for 5 minutes on a topic that is given to us–no editing.  I confess I do spell check–because I am the worst speller ever! Go: We all have such similar stories–a high school friend said that this is called 6 degrees of separation–I…