Time Magazine just named “The Ebola Fighters” its 2014 Person of the Year. What motivates individuals to dive into the throes of a dangerous pandemic in order to save innocent people’s lives?
Read MoreI confess. I have a new secret passion…hidden presents. Things, people, places, scents, sights, scenarios around us that we might take or granted or perhaps never focused on.
Read MoreDo you have certain things you decided so strongly so long ago that you don’t even quite remember why? Early in my life, I wiped watches from my life. I remember being a little girl and loving a necklace watch. But whenever I wore any watch, I somehow lost it. Ultimately, timepieces and I abandoned each other. I became the teen and then grown-up who refused to wear watches.
Read MoreYou fold a tiny raisin into your hand, perhaps thinking about the journey it made to reach you, farmers planting seeds, nature providing water. You squeeze the creases of the aged, dried grape, maybe feeling the wrinkles as the hands that picked the ripened fruit had done.
Read MoreYou may know that electric feeling....you have an amazing new idea, it bubbles in your brain and heart. It settles in, you decide to write it down. You clutch your coffee or your wine or vitamin water and circle your writing desk.
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