I recently heard a wonderful talk by Tara Brach about the importance of the attitude we hold towards the bumped and bruised places in our...

EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU (After Derek Mahon) Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a...

This scene from "The Help" is one of the most potent images of nurturance that I have ever seen on film. Here Aibileen, the "help" is...

Not too long ago, we were at a family gathering with relatives we hadn't seen for awhile. I was so excited to see everyone; it had been...

Did you ever feel as though you had a crust around your heart? That you just needed to melt into...something...but you just didn't know...

"I love to watch you..." I was moved by Special Ed teacher Rachel Macy Stafford's writings on the impact of these words on her family as...

i know that touching was and still is and always will be the true revolution.--Nikki Giovanni I want to share a secret with you. You have...

When we shift our attention toward listening, our whole world changes. Learning to listen is equal to learning to love. --Ruth Cox My...

So many people tell me of their yearning to connect more richly with themselves and others, but feel stymied by being too scattered or...

This charming video takes an actual conversation a father had with his two year old, and re-enacts it with an adult man. It is...