The best way to move forward in life is from a place of acceptance. I want you to know that in a time of divorce, where you are is just fine! I know this may be difficult to completely embrace right in this moment, but it will really help you if you can take one ...
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. As I promised yesterday, I want to share with you one of the greatest bits of parenting advice I have ever read. It comes from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet, published in 1923. Your children are not your children. They ...
You may give your children your love, but not your thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran Hey, I’m back. My spirit and creativity seem to be re-emerging after a bit of a hiatus due to gallstone pancreatitis. Wow, what an experience. I call my trip through the powerlessness of illness “empathy rounds.” As a physician, I sometimes forget ...
It ALL happens just in the nick of time. Some of you may know I’ve been sick with varying intensity the last eight days. I’ve been “battling” gallstones. I got worse, better, worse, better, and then suddenly at 2 a.m. yesterday I got really, really worse. In getting really, really worse the message finally got ...
Is there anything else we really need in the world than for the sun to rise this morning? 6:24 a.m. That was the moment. That was the moment the sun, the source of life for our entire solar system peeked its glowing fiery head over the horizon. My world here on the western shore of ...
When you feel completely powerless, plotting revenge can be the perfect answer. Now I know for most of our mothers and teachers told us it’s not right to feel anger and revenge, and we were “shamed” for having those feelings. But there are times when fury and revenge is the only path back to ...
Last Monday I met a gentleman from Detroit on the street outside a bike shop on the east side near Farwell and North. He asked for help finding the stop for the number 30 bus. I really enjoyed our conversation, partly because he wasn’t panhandling. Well, I was absolutely no help, since I had just ...
I got a text message from my good Jewish friend Ed in the DC area this week saying “Jesus is just all right!” So how does that come to pass? I’ll explain. We were chatting on his cell while he was driving and he mentioned he was on his way to see the Doobie Brothers ...
One of the most intelligent species on our planet, the dolphin, seems to have one purpose in life: frolicking! They swim and play like nobody’s business, and for some reason a lot of us want to do that with them. Go figure! I think that what’s so interesting about it is that it’s so ...
I prefer to pronounce the word “imperfection” as “I am perfection!” I have heard it said that either everything is perfect, or nothing is perfect. That particular wisdom comes to me often because we live in a world that is so intent on viewing something as either right or wrong. I feel that ...