Posts Tagged: NYC

Healing Therapy

February 1st, 2013
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Drawing By NYC Multiple Medium Artist Joe Mangrum
One of my sisters has a shoulder that is frozen and she is going to a physical therapist who helps her work through the incredibly stiff shoulder muscles and joint.  If the physical therapy doesn’t work, then she may have to have surgery and she really doesn’t want that to happen.

The other day we were talking about her physical therapy and she was telling me about how the therapist told her that to really get the exercises to unlock the muscles and joint that she would need to take the current … Read More

“Loved You First” Cover – Owen Danoff

January 10th, 2013
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Music can change my mood in an instant! If you are anything like me, you probably have songs in your iPod that you listen to only when you exercise and those songs are probably different from music that you play when you want to relax or just chill. I think from the moment we are born we are sensitive to sounds and how those sounds make us feel. Listening to music can be therapeutic and soothing; truly a stressbuster.  I believe that music can truly heal your soul.  Or it can get your creatives juices going and help to push… Read More

Dancing Dreams

December 11th, 2012
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Pauline Clark has got it goin’ on.Today’s post is about holding on to a dream that you know is good for your soul.  Pauline Clark is my inspiration today and she is featured in the story below that I read in the New York Daily News about how Pauline’s lifetime dream of dancing with the Rockettes finally came true. I think Pauline Clark, who is 87, has definitely heard about the idea of “use it or loose it” and has taken it to heart as a lifetime philosophy. The idea behind “use it or loose it” is essentially this:  if… Read More

Gangnam Style

October 17th, 2012
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I’m taking a break today and enjoying the popularity of “Gangnam Style.” “Gangnam Style” makes me laugh and laughing helps you cope with life.  Laughter is very powerful medicine and I try to use humor as much as possible to get through the ordinary hassles and crises I face. Courtesy of The Levo League, I saw the above picture yesterday posted on the company’s Facebook page and had to share it!  The man pictured in the blue tuxedo jacket is South Korean rapper Psy.  I didn’t even know rap existed in South Korea but there you go! The “Gangnam Style”… Read More

Mary Chapin Carpenter

September 10th, 2011
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Grand Central Station, New York City Here is a short clip of award-winning singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter eloquently telling the story that inspired her to write a new song titled, “Grand Central Station,” a song remembering another group of quiet heros from 9/11: the hundreds of people who diligently and passionately worked to clean-up and preserve the hallowed remains of Ground Zero. Please listen to it…….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04L5_cnFVC0 Thanks Ryan!!!!… Read More

Pause & Remember

September 9th, 2011
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Before the mantra was jobs, jobs, jobs, it was security, security, security. The security of our nation, the security of our borders, the security of our everyday lives was at the top of the nation’s agenda.  No one could do enough to make America safe and secure.  And we were willing to do whatever it took to make it happen: reduced civil liberties, metal detectors and wands, pat downs, no shoes.A decade later, 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden is finally dead as are some of his top operatives. But how safe are we? When the 10th anniversary of 9/11 arrives… Read More

Gratitude

August 26th, 2011
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In her best-selling book Simple Abundance, author Sarah Ban Breathnach recommends spending a few minutes each morning and evening listing five things for which you are grateful. Once a day is good enough for me but at the end of a particularly great or horrendous day you might want to think again about some of the unexpected things that happened to you. Focusing on the positive aspects of life is what’s it’s all about.  After a week that started with me taking my son back to college for his senior year in New York City, then an unprecedented 5.8 earthquake… Read More

The Twin Towers, the Pentagon & Flight 93

May 3rd, 2011
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When President Obama officially announced on television late last night that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, my thoughts went immediately to the relatives and friends of the thousands of people whose lives were lost in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93. For almost ten years, these people have been trying to put the pieces of their shattered lives back together so that they may heal and perhaps build some kind of a future after having their loved ones violently taken from them. I wondered how and what they were feeling now that… Read More