This is Your Last Worthless Anything I am sure you can recall a time when a piece of music popped into your head and you could not get it out….as a clinical psychologist for some years, I should be able to explain to you why that happens.  Sorry to disappoint but no...

The Gentle Art of Blessing As Spring turns to summer, allergies are visiting some folks and the sounds of sneezes and the follow-on remark “God Bless You” are both in the wind.  Saying or sending that blessing is a cultural norm and I can’t help but wonder why we...

DO Everything with Love Love can be relegated to the romantic or to the familial – or to the special.  In truth, Love is for everything and everyone…it doesn’t need a category or a distinction.  It can be seen in the gorgeous play of Spring – everything so green and...

Life is Just a Bowl of Choices Although the photo shows cherries, the topic is choices.  One of the most challenging disciplines of my life has been to recognize that everything I think, feel or do is my choice.  Initially I may have a thought that appears out of...

What’s Your Dream The classic film Pretty Woman ends with a gentleman shouting out the above question…what’s your dream?  Ponder that for a moment. This is a week of extremes for me…my birthday….my book release and the one-year anniversary of my beloved husband’s...

TRIBUTE TO LOVE For those who have spent any time in the San Francisco Bay Area, the name of Cecil Williams is well known.  At 94 years of age, Cecil made his transition this week after a life well lived.  He provided San Francisco with many challenges over the years...

Friendship-The Juice of Life Friendship is both a deep topic and a wide topic.  It couldn’t possibly be defined and described in one blog…probably needs an entire book.  I am going to try and provide at least a teaser on this juice of life because I feel like it is...

All Roads Lead to Dog I have been mentioning for a bit that I have a book coming out in the next few weeks.  Its title is the same as this blog.  In a way, it’s a play on words..I will let you decide what the play is.  The photo that accompanies this blog is a Norwich...

One Problem-One Solution Recently listening to one of my favorite teachers, I discovered something that I surely should have known, but somehow missed.  He was offering the idea that all of the personal problems we might face as well as the world problems in our face-...

SO MUCH LOVE Some years ago, a dear friend (who reads this blog) and I were discussing the tenets of Judaism versus Christianity.  It boiled down to this – in the Jewish tradition – good works and mending the world make up the teaching of a righteous Jew.  In...