By Karen McMahon Where will your thoughts take you this week? Spring, when the world comes alive again, is the perfect time to put some energy into you! Your marriage is over, your partner is gone or about to be, if you have children they may or may not be with you. So, what will […]
By Jean Grossman Especially during divorce, our mood can match the weather. After what always feels like a long and dreary winter, you begin to wonder if it will ever end. Any evidence of spring brings hope and that reminds you of the feeling of a new beginning. Hope inspires you!
By Jean Grossman Surviving divorce can be challenging even when it goes smoothly. Lots of unknown territory to navigate, lots of people telling you what to do, lots of people telling you you’re not doing it right, does a picture come to mind? After a while, it gets to just be too much and […]
I recently wrote a piece about my older brother, the most avidly fit person in our family having a heart attack and being found dead on the floor of the ED where he worked. After being revived, he left the hospital five days later and has been recovering at home, where he lives alone. This […]
On a rainy Sunday evening I returned from St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark having visited my brother who had a heart attack the night before. The good news—he had it where he worked, at St. Mike’s ER. The not so good news—he had it in an area where it was not observed. When his […]
What is this very simple word all about? So, thankful for Merriam-Webster being online, I learned that it’s as simple as how a subject or its parts are mentally viewed I had to ask myself that this weekend in the midst of a discussion about the difference between ‘partly cloudy’ and partly sunny’. I know […]
We choose when to wake up, what to eat, what to wear, and where to go and when. Each and every day, we make choices about these tangible things in our lives. And, more often than not, we make them consciously. We also make choices about what to think, but how conscious are those choices? […]
