“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?” -Elizabeth Gilbert Myth #1: If we have fallen out of love, it […]
Media Meteor Hits 33 Million Homes: Secrets to a Happy Family Revisited
If you get the Sunday newspaper, you were probably one of the 33 million subscribers who saw yesterday’s Parade Magazine cover story, “The Secrets to a Happy Family,” by the New York Times columnist, best-selling author and dad, Bruce Feiler. Feiler is perhaps best known for his book Walking the Bible, also made into a […]
Healthy Families Take Time and Tending
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But […]
Teach Children the Gift of Giving
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” -Gautama Buddha This is the time, beginning with Thanksgiving and lasting through the arrival of the new year, […]
10 Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress
“Gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” […]
Practice Gratitude: A Thanksgiving Reminder
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you, that would suffice.” -Meister Eckhart When Thanksgiving arrives each year, just as the number of turkeys, stuffing mixes, green beans, and cranberries seem to grow exponentially, so do the conversations about gratitude. It is perhaps why it is one of everyone’s […]
