There’s a Monster in My Closet! “There’s a monster in my closet!”  How many times have you heard that at bed time?   Children can create all sorts of monsters in the closet!  Parents invent all kinds of various remedies to get rid of the monsters hoping to eliminate the fears and worries of their […]

Don’t you just love the little girl at the end of the video!  Despite all the attempts by the school photographer to remove her smile, she stays focused on the job at hand—to smile.  Simple, really.  Just keep smiling. Yet, amid all the distractions around us it tends to be hard for us to do […]

Grief is overflowing love for a person no longer physically present in our lives. Therefore, to stop grieving over a person is to stop loving him or her. As one widow in a grief support group asked me, “You mean I don’t have to leave my husband in the past? Are you saying that I […]