Someone reminded me the other day that it is not our job to rescue people from experiencing their karma — not even those who love us or who were supposed to love us. It can be painful to watch their karmic IOU coming due. That’s “I owe (the) Universe.” It…

My dad always saw me. He rescued me from my evil grandmother, but that’s a story for another day. I was born in the 50s, grew up in the 60s, and came of age in the 70s. My dad taught me how to be a good human. He told me…

So today I went into a big institution. I talked to the receptionist. A pleasant open young woman. I was assigned a representative to help me. He was professional. Seemed to know his stuff. Kind. Patient when I asked questions and when I told him I already knew what he…

One winter when my mother had already started getting noticeably forgetful but before I realized how her dementia was affecting some of her cognitive abilities, the two of us had an emotionally painful visit. At the time I saw the resulting turmoil as just another chorus of our dysfunctional soundtrack…

When I was young I felt a lot of sudden bursts of fill-me-up-completely feelings. Sometimes they were pure unbridled joy. Other times I felt the uncertainty and hopelessness I have always associated with a spacewalker whose cord to the mothership has been severed. Now twinges reside more often in my…

When my son was in fourth grade his teacher introduced a unit on story writing when the students returned from their December holiday break. She taught the children the traditional three-step process: introduce characters; create a conflict for the characters; and end the story with a resolution to the conflict…

She stood tall in her paisley printed, pink jumpsuit, her short dark hair accentuating her even darker, enormous eyes. She smiled, no, she beamed, at all the people smiling back at her, vying for just one look from those shining eyes. You could tell she knew everyone adored her. She…

Many of us dread looking back at difficult events from our past that wounded us emotionally. Some of us are so eager to avoid revisiting them that we strike out at anything anyone does in the present or any current situation resembling in any way, real or imagined, the past…