
What to say when someone you love can’t find the way out of their own darkness? What to write when each news story is more tragic than the last and there are no answers. That is where I’ve been lately and why I haven’t written. Instead, I prayed. Please help us to find the light…
But, shouldn’t I be farther by now? I thought it would look different. I’m hot. Where’s the water? This isn’t what I expected. Isn’t there a faster way? I’m hungry. I can’t find the map. Maybe I was supposed to take the left back there. I think this is the wrong road. Is that a…
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -Dr. Wayne Dyer There could not be a more perfect example of this in my life than the city of Los Angeles. Off and on, for over a decade, I have lived there, dated people from there, worked there, and,…
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