Yesterdays Looking Glass
Twas a time when, Streets weren’t paved with gold but lined with simple houses, picket fences, and sprawling mighty oaks. Little girls filled their dollhouses with hopes and dreams stored away among the raindrops of memories saved for a rainy day. The music of the day echoed from creatures in the woods, the valleys below, […]
The Pulse Behind Truth And Liberty
As a writer, I have always been fascinated by the lives of the people who conquered fear, struggle, and overwhelming odds just to exist at a time when surviving was all they had to look forward to. It was on the backbone of their blood, sweat, and tears, that the imperishable fabric of our Republic […]
“A Better Life” – Revisited
Here we are, still facing hard choices and seemingly insurmountable decisions. Right now, together, we have a powerful voice to turn everything completely around. To make all that is bad good again – once and for all. We need only to walk hand in hand, lean on each other and look back at how far […]
A Choice Worth Living
There comes a time when we have a choice to live a lifestyle that best suits our needs. More than likely it would be one of calm over chaos, simplicity over clutter, and love over abomination. We just don’t seem to know where to begin. However, one iconic woman chose to live that life of […]
“A Better Life”
Life gets better when; Sunrises and sunsets leave us breathless, and raindrops tickle our fancy. We hold a newborn and catch their smile for the first time and we come alive again. When looking out at the ocean it feels like it’s another world reaching out to us, while it whispers out our name. We […]
“Poet Voices” by Carol Wood
“Precious Gifts” From the pen and perspective of Carol Wood/ Platoon Nana: I thought about the most precious gift,I pondered what it could be,‘Tis simple, it’s the gift of lifeT’was the answer that came to me So what’s the most precious gift of lifeQuizzed my searching, wee small voice‘Tis simpler yet, the answer came,It’s the […]
Why Can’t Men Love Like Women?
Maybe … men just love differently. From PsychologyToday.com – “I was having one of those “he can’t connect emotionally” conversations. A friend was telling me about her relationship angst over his inability to understand her needs and to talk about his. Even though I’m in research and not therapy, as a psychologist, I get that […]
Calm The Storm
There’s a dangerous issue that has been sweeping across America for much too long a time.. and it’s that people aren’t dealing with their negative emotions anymore. This needs to change, and the change must begin immediately. America is going through the worst crisis we’ve been through in years, perhaps ever. Climate change, calamity at […]