Good Clean Reads

Its all fun and games until someone gets hurt.”  Anon

I am so bummed that my bee love affair has lost its fairy tale luster and all it took was a few moments of bad planning. After successfully feeding the bees twice by myself, I thought I knew how to do it. Time is of the essence when working with bees and I discovered that a 10 a.m. warm morning is not the same for bees as a 7:30 p.m. cool...

“We expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship.” 

-Sherry Turkle

A couple of years ago, not long after I won the Angel Conference I got a text message from a successful local businessman who had agreed to become our CEO and probably had a lot to do with my winning...

Changing our behavior is the spring of our human potential. And yet, many of us suffer with debilitating health conditions and painful relationships due to behaviors that feel stuck and unmovable. Listen as Georgianna Donadio shares the power of simple techniques for Behavioral Engagement. Transform your relationships to your loved ones and to life itself by bringing your full attention and...

 “When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.” ~Marshall McLuhan

It is hard to imagine that we have already come full circle in our relationship to technology. The relentless drive for more access, smaller devices and ever increasing speed is hitting a wall for many of us. Yet, it isn’t so surprising that the wonder has worn thin when you consider the sheer number of...

I see a new professional track developing for me. Although I have only taught lessons on positive thinking a dozen times, I can imagine teaching these lessons a hundred more. Kids of all ages were as surprised as I was to learn that 95% of the 50-60,000 thoughts humans have each day were exactly the same as the day before and that 80% of those thoughts are negative. This is why it is so hard for...

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” -Theodore Hesburgh

Saturday marked the 28^thyear of my marriage; we celebrated by going to pick up six pounds of honeybees. I have been building their hives for the last month and my husband has been studying bee books. The balance of our talents and how our energy manifests was at one time a continuous source of...

Years ago I memorized the fifty principles from the Course in Miracles. One that has always stayed with me is how miracles heal the past in the present and thus release the future. Many of us don’t recognize how we hold our future hostage to the pain of our past. We don’t understand that healing the past happens in the here and now. In part this is because it is easy to turn the past into a static...

“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”   -Aberjhani

One of the most common ways that we leave each other while staying together is to remove sex from our relationship. This is not a new topic. In recent...

I haven’t seen my brother for 25 years. We were both in our 20s then; young enough to believe that aging was something that happened to other people. Our faces were unlined and our family wounds still fresh enough to be leading us around without our knowledge. Our family wounds went deep. Our parents’ divorce happened when stigma existed behind the word. Their subsequent pain, the ways they dealt...