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Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely place. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. Ronald Dahl A few years ago, I put a chair and reading lamp next to a window in the bedroom. The window…

You have brains in your head. You have feet in you shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where you to go. Dr. Suess The Oxford Dictionary defines synchronicity as, the simultaneous occurrence of events which…

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis Happy New Year! Now that the holidays are past I’m ready for spring. I would like to wake up on January second and see bulbs beginning to sprout and the lawn showing patches of green. No, I am…

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou Until next year, with best wishes for the Holidays.

There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. Dodinsky  It seems like a million years ago that I would receive long letters from my mother and grandmother. Even then, I wasn’t as committed to timely replies as they were. Still, I miss those letters. Communication, today, has…

And then one day I decided that hurry and stress were no longer going to be part of my life. Brendon Burchard Many of us would agree that the Holidays can be a stressful time. It seems that when we get to October, the year is over before we know it. One minute we’re carving…

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see. The Polar ExpressChris Van Allsburg The Polar Express, a Caldecott Medal winner, is one of my favorite children’s books and I often give it as a baby gift. At it’s core, it’s about keeping the belief we…

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A.A.Milne I confess to being a note maker. I keep a daily planner and looking at it is one of the first things I do in the morning. I tried keeping it on my desktop…

They who sing through the summer must dance through the winter. Italian Proverb I admit to not being a fan of winter. I grew up in the north woods of Wisconsin where the season is long and takes no prisoners. The cold seeps through bulky sweaters, heavy wool coats, layers of gloves. It doesn’t matter.…