Why did I write this collection of prayers? Well, it was my experience over the last thirty-plus years in a public relations career at a Fortune 500 company that allowed me to walk in the shoes of real people with real problems who were looking for real results. I have walked beside a person on […]

HOW I LEARNT TO STOP STRESS FAST In my thirties I looked ten years older than my age and was close to a breakdown from stress, overwork and unresolved emotional issues. Most of the time I didn’t know what was wrong with my life. I didn’t know why it wasn’t running smoothly and had no […]

INTRODUCTION Have you ever felt like you don’t really know who you are? Or have you ever gone out with your friends and had a good time, then came home and asked yourself: “Who was that person? Was that me, or who others want me to be?” People often throw around terms like “midlife crisis,” […]

Chapter One Earliest Memory My first memory is from when I was six years old. I was wearing a pretty dress, white ruffled bobby socks, and Mary Jane shoes. My hair was up in three big plaits. I was happy because I felt pretty. I’d gotten all dressed up. It was going to be a […]

INTRODUCTION This is a book about spirituality, particularly African spirituality. The premise and thesis is African but I invite ALL to read to appreciate spirituality from an African perspective. Knowing this from the outset, some may read the book and think of me as biased in some of my conclusions; it is impossible to be […]

Introduction Our existence is fragile. I learned that in many intricate ways, long before the COVID-19 pandemic, so I do not take today for granted. I do not know what tomorrow will bring. I do not even know if tomorrow will come. On the eve of Thanksgiving 2016, I received the diagnosis of stage 4 […]

Chapter 1 Memory Fragments of Early Childhood Mount Murray is a glorious, green mountain in New South Wales. It is 6 kilometres from Robertson, a large village in the Southern Highlands {in the Illawarra escarpment} about 35 minutes from the coast. We lived opposite the former Mount Murray Railway Station. A green hill was at […]

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. ~ Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Twenty years ago, I stood on a hotel balcony high above a beach in Mexico, despondent. Down below, I […]

Prologue Women Inspiring Women In 2020 And Beyond During the month of May 2020 when we were still experiencing the harsh impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, I began a quarantine project. People were doing a variety of things, from being bored at home and doing nothing to being bored at home and starting their businesses, […]

HYPER(IMPER)EALITY America is the land of cults and cult leaders, of hyperbole and death by truth in fiction. When I was nine years old I gas lit myself with a careless swing of wool on an elderly breathing stove When I was eleven years old I gas lit myself again ignoring every sign that Santa […]

RESUME PREP So far, you should have selected the best positions that fit you, reviewed the career opportunities aligned with those positions, and selected companies that match your career goals and lifestyle. You are ready to create your resume. We live in the twenty first century, and technology is becoming more advanced than ever. Resumes […]

There is no doubt that Israel’s current crisis highlights a considerable number of faults in the system of government in use here since the state’s inception, some of them severe. Our problem with the justice system was known early on and the appeal to write a constitution, already in the Declaration of Independence, was there […]

4. Let Go of the Banana Have you heard the story about how to catch a monkey? There is a see-through wire fence with a series of holes in it. The holes are just big enough to fit a monkey’s hand and forearm. On the other side of the fence is a banana. The monkey […]

3. Good Science vs. Bad Science – Where can we find reliable health information?  The majority of us nowadays google health updates, news, seeking a treatment or specialists’ recommendations in relation to nutritional, natural or medical products, diseases like Covid and its treatments, advances or medical equipment. You may receive information also over social media […]