As Mother’s Day is again upon us, causing us to reflect on and celebrate how very special our mothers are to us, I am reminded of just how blessed I truly am not only as a woman but as a mother too!! To my Mommy – Barbara Jean Wilson (deceased when I was but 2 […]

Time is such a precious commodity that we often forget its true value – especially when it comes to spending it with those we love most and whom we hold so dear. Time to share precious moments, to laugh and even cry together. Time to share one another’s successes and even failures in this life. […]

“Betray”: (1) “to disappoint the hopes or expectations of; be disloyal to: to betray one’s friend.”  (2) “to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling: to betray a trust (Dictionary.com).” Betrayal is a most debilitating experience and is not always easily overcome, especially when the betrayer is someone whom you have loved and cherished with […]

[Excerpt from The Puny Tree – Part One:  “God used a puny tree to physically illustrate to me how He is ALL the strength I need – no matter what I am facing and no matter how puny and insignificant I might believe myself to be, or have allowed others to make me feel, in […]

Hidden Hills, California — a lovely, guard gated horse community of country style estates and beautiful old California oak, pine and numerous other maturely grown trees.  Imagine a freshly paved country road with a blend of dirt side-walks, pitch black nights with no street lamps, and of course horse loving, trail-riding residents, who at the […]

If we were to do an honest personal assessment of ourselves, most of you would admit that there has been at least once in your life that something or someone has driven you to a hollow place of feeling small, unimportant, insignificant — and in the deepest depths of your being — valueless. Children bullied […]

Oftentimes it’s difficult to forgive the unforgivable acts of others towards us or those we love, and in some cases it’s difficult to forgive ourselves for allowing those things to have occurred in our lives.  But as we’ve often heard it said forgiveness is a critical component to our ability to heal and in many […]

In life, you must take a chance.  Just do it!