We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not…

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. — Walt Whitman When we were young, my sister used to sell me her hand-me-downs. I may have fallen for it a few times. She wasn’t unkind about it. Just had good business sense. Knowing I admired her…

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. — Aeschylus “I’m scared!” “What’s wrong?” My friend Lori giggled on the other line in that what-this-time kind of way. “There’s a possum outside my door and he’s staring at me!” “What?” “Here…

Write hard and clear about what hurts. — Ernest Hemingway While struggling with my own writer’s block, I reached out to my followers asking what I should write. Though I did end up writing something else, everyone wanted me to write about writer’s block. This was my favorite suggestion: to…

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. — Rumi Why is it that I can tell by the first three notes if I’m going to love a song, from the first sentence if I am going to like a book…

“There’s no such thing as chance, it’s all preordained. Like, Kismet.” — Marilyn Monroe One time I went to an audition in LA and the only description of the character was, ‘Medium’ not as in psychic medium, but medium as in body-type medium. There were only two people at the…

The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. — David Lynch Just so you know, I started meditating. I know, I’m already so annoying. Today I meditated so hard, I fell fast asleep…

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey My Birthday is Monday, and no, I’m not alerting the masses (the 20 people who read my blog) to solicit your Birthday greetings. I tend to dread Birthdays. Naturally, a Birthday…

You tell me, mistakes Are part of being young But that don’t right The wrong that’s been done — Brenda Lee I’ve noticed a new trend where people are apologizing for things before anyone cares about what they’re apologizing for. So, just in case I ever make it, I thought…