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28 Cats

March 8th, 2013
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Okay.  I admit it.  I have a totally silly side: ridiculous pictures of cats and dogs crack me up.
This post may seem random to you but it’s not.  It’s humor therapy!  Smiles and laughter can help us heal.  Scientists report that laughter changes our brain chemistry and boosts our immune system.
We have to be able to laugh at ourselves and at humorous situations.  If we can’t find the funny side of life, then we’re in trouble.
My wonderful son found this on buzzfeed.com and thought it was hysterical; which it is!!In fact, I would really love it if … Read More

Go For It!

February 27th, 2013
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Reach out there and go for it!  You have to dream big, wish hard, and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.              ~ Cee Lo Green… Read More

Life Is Not a Cereal

February 21st, 2013
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Have you heard of Kid President? While I was on YouTube the other day I discovered this young ball of fire who is very funny and very cute. So today’s post is about laughing because laughter is a tremendous resource for dealing with stress and forgetting how bad your day was.  Laughter is infectious and if you are laughing and smiling then your friends will want to know what’s going on to make you all giggly and then pretty soon they’ll be laughing too! More importantly, laughter may go a long way to reducing and healing the pain you may… Read More

Catching My Breath — Kelly Clarkson

February 20th, 2013
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Kelly Clarkson Singing at President Obama’s Inauguration Five days a week, I drive to and from work and during that time I usually listen to the radio.  I have five stations that I randomly listen to depending on my mood and the pace of the traffic. These days the song that currently makes me go directly to the volume button is Kelly Clarkson’s “Catch My Breath.” It’s a song of strength, a song that gives me a boost of positive energy. To me, the song has the vibe of someone who has survived some kind of a personal journey or… Read More

Year of the Snake

February 11th, 2013
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Chinese Celebration of the Year of the Snake/ AFP Photo Happy Year of the Snake! Chinese New Year is here and millions around the world are celebrating “the Year of the Snake.”  Just so you know, 2012 was the Year of the Dragon. In Chinese symbology, snakes are regarded as intelligent and wise, BUT the Chinese also believe that snakes have a tendency to be somewhat unscrupulous.  Oh yeah. . . we all are familiar with someone who might have “done us wrong.”  Being unscrupulous definitely has a bad vibe attached to it, which is probably why Americans say that… Read More

Party Girl

January 31st, 2013
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OMG my wonderful readers, I don’t know about you but I need a good laugh! Cecily Strong as Party Girl There are too many stressful things happening in my family right now that I can’t write about but believe me when I tell you that a good laugh must happen in order for me to feel better about life and the people I care about!  And when I need a good laugh I know I can always count on NBC’s hysterical and infamous Saturday Night Live to make it happen. Without further adieu, here are the multi-talented comedians, Cecily Strong… Read More

Comfort Dogs

January 28th, 2013
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“Charlie”  They say that dogs can sense when people need comforting. And when dogs feel a person’s fatigue, sadness or loneliness, it is in their nature to give companionship and sometimes entertainment to the person in need. I have been watching the generous spirit of a new puppy named Charlie who has joined the family of one of my sisters.  Charlie is full of so much energy and love and he just can’t wait for someone to hold him and play with him.  Charlie is a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel and he has an uncanny sixth sense about which person… Read More

Snowy Surprise

January 24th, 2013
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I went to the kitchen window early this morning and expected to see the bare concrete of the sidewalk and instead saw snow covering the ground and all of the surrounding cars and trees. I had heard some talk of snow coming to the Washington, DC area yesterday on the news but the forecasters are usually so far off the mark that I didn’t pay attention to their prediction. What do you know? The weather people were actually right this time. So instead of opening the front door and walking outside in my bare feet to grab the newspaper off… Read More

Revisiting Maurice Sendak

January 16th, 2013
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Maurice Sendak is known as an internationally renowned prize-winning children’s book author and illustrator but he also has a message for adults too. When children read his most famous book, “Where The Wild Things Are,” they run around and play as if they are monsters, just like the ones in Sendak’s book.  Spontaneously and instantly, children enter Sendak’s world with love and abandon. Adults may want to join the children in their play but their “adultness” sometimes holds them back.  “Oh, that’s a child’s book” or “I can’t play like that” or “I shouldn’t play like that” are some of… Read More