Happy V-Day, 2012!
Eve Ensler in Australia, 2012 Photo Credit: Paula Allen Valentine’s Day is on February 14. V-Day is a global daily celebration of love founded by Eve Ensler. She believes we should be creating and thriving rather than surviving and recovering. The V-Day movement is Ms. Ensler on a global scale: fierce, wild, unstoppable. Today Ms. … Read more
Celebrating Susan Cox Powell’s Love for Charlie and Bradon
Susan Cox Powell was a wonderful mother. She blessed her sons Charlie and Bradon with love which is a mother’s greatest gift for her children. She taught them faith, strength, and hope. They embraced each other with laughter, joy, and fun. Dorothy L. Nolte wrote “Children Learn What They Live,” and it seemed like a … Read more
Should We Trust Sky Metalwala’s Daddy?
Although the disappearance of Sky Metalwala is playing out in my backyard, I have intentionally remained silent because I was waiting to see whether there was a link between Sky’s father Solomon Metalwala and Glenn Sacks, the leader of the PAS movement. KIRO, the Seattle CBS affiliate, reported tonight that Glenn Sacks and his loyal … Read more
Hoda Kotb: “You can’t scare me.” (Book Review + More)
Hold on tightly to the things you love and get rid of the things you don’t. – Hoda Kotb Hoda Kotb, Today Show co-host, Dateline correspondent, and breast cancer survivor, has learned lessons that I think will help those of us who are wearing purple. It only takes one person to change your life. – Hoda … Read more
Doris Buffett: Giving It All Away (Book Review + More)
I am investing in people. – Doris Buffett What would you do if someone dropped hundreds of millions of dollars into your lap? If you are like Doris Eleanor Buffett, you will give it all away. During a dinner party at her younger brother Warren E. Buffett’s home, Bono suggested she write the story of … Read more
Louise L. Hay: You Can Heal Your Life
Your thoughts create your life. – Louise L. Hay Louise L. Hay recently celebrated her 85th birthday with 400 friends and colleagues. She survived childhood rape and incest; child abuse, neglect and abandonment; teenage pregnancy; dating violence; and cervical cancer. She was a high-fashion model who married prosperous English businessman Andrew Hay and met royalty and dined at the White … Read more
Dr. Christine McFadden: Love Dispensed Here
Christine McFadden, DVM It was just to destroy me. – Dr. Christine McFadden She went out for a morning walk with her best friend, Amy Velasquez, and came home to find all four of her children brutally murdered. How do you recover from this devastating loss? Dr. Christine McFadden is a veterinarian in Merced, CA. She founded the thriving Valley … Read more
Dr. Robin L. Smith: The Truth About Great Marriages (Book Review + More)
I have known what it is to live a lie ~ to want so badly to keep a relationship that I made myself invisible. . . I would like to spare the pain of every woman who fears that she can have love only if she erases her needs and makes herself small. – Robin … Read more
