Bull Charming Story
How To Charm a Bull First, you must be able to sing in Spanish. Then, you must be able to sing as if all you had ever known was Love. Then the bull will hear you. Then the bull will respect you, will come running to you. The Rio Grande Valley was home to my […]
15 Cakes
Fifteen cakes. Actually, it was probably somewhere between 12-15 cakes that I won in a cake walk in grade school. Three fourths of the prized cakes came home with me – or they would have if we hadn’t handed some to our family friends at the event. Thank goodness our neighbor had a station wagon […]
Lessons in Beauty – Through the Eyes of Dementia
“You are beautiful.” I turned to see where this comment was coming from. She was a woman who looked to be in her mid-60’s, bundled up for a rainy coastal day. She looked in my eyes and said slowly with conviction, “You are ab-so-lute-ly beautiful.” Then her focus changed from looking into my eyes to […]
The Truth of Beauty – Journey Beyond Appearance
This is dedicated to all those who have been affected by narcissistic views on beauty and may have forgotten that beauty is more than what is in the eyes of the beholder. Someone in one of my Wise Women groups asked a question along the lines of, “If there were nothing to fix in the world, […]