“It helps to be a little deaf ….”

My first experience with this advice started off as a peaceful Lyft ride to work at 5:30 in the a.m. – until I asked the driver to please make a left turn instead of a right. “Why?” he asked. My response: “I’m more comfortable going in this direction – and it’s a more direct route…

Pace Your Life for Peace

“Words are powerful motivators. They can either motivate you to strengthen your resolve, pull up your big-girl undies and move forward; or they can slow you toward inertia where you don’t want to do anything at all.”

Patience: peace within life’s struggles

I’m a writer; a runner; a budding artist; a blogger; a novelist hopeful; a weight-training newbie; and I’m on a weight-loss journey. In short, I’m blessed with a laundry list of labels in my life that all require a level of patience for me to stick it out and make them work. But most of…