Read more about the article I Could Have Saved One Honey Bee
honeybee-Image by marian anbu juwan from Pixabay (2)
insight / learning / non-fiction / short story

I Could Have Saved One Honey Bee

Words, believe it or not, hurt deeply. A heart that weeps the life of a honey bee will undoubtedly find its heart shattered to pieces by mean words that hurt another human being. I ask that you be kind to all living things. Good living is not just about doing good but about not doing bad to all living things. If you have nothing good to say about someone, please, for the transcience of being, for the preciousness that life is, treat your life and that of everyone else with reverence and compassion. Curb your tongue.

2 Comments
May 26, 2020
Read more about the article How Close Are We To Achieving World Peace?
Image by Andi Graf from Pixabay
insight / learning / non-fiction

How Close Are We To Achieving World Peace?

Then I came to Japan. And I collapsed. Exhausted. I became undone only to find a wellspring of new energy that slowly seeped into me. Slowly, I started to deflate. I heard birds chirping, cicadas singing their joyful songs, people conversing and laughing softly and life for me turned into a slow waltz. It can happen to you too. Promise.

11 Comments
May 21, 2020
Read more about the article How Comforting is Your Comfort Food?
Yours truly. Pic by son.
insight / learning

How Comforting is Your Comfort Food?

A few decades ago, back when I was living flamboyantly in Chicago, I was introduced to a food extravaganza that could have defrocked any home-grown priest in my small country of Belize. Newly arrived and having never had a real hamburger — and by real, I mean a whopper from The House of the great whopper  — I was already sold on the American staple. To my defense, let me tell you that I ate with gusto, actually licked my fingers, again thinking of my upbringing of waste-not.

1 Comment
May 19, 2020
Read more about the article Is Your Way Better?
Image by Jennifer Watson from Pixabay
learning / non-fiction

Is Your Way Better?

A short message today, to take you into a glorious new week. “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring.  Love is an active verb, like ‘struggle.’  To love someone is to strive to  accept that person exactly the way  he or she is, right here and now.” — Mr. Fred Rogers

0 Comments
May 17, 2020
Read more about the article How I Tried to Blend In, Failed but Found my ‘Funny’
Image by Jason Goh from Pixabay
humor / insight / learning / non-fiction / short story

How I Tried to Blend In, Failed but Found my ‘Funny’

In the 1990s I was a new mother raising my kids in a land so foreign than my own that tuning in to the way I saw my mommy-friends do it turned to be the new normal I wanted to imitate. I tried the mamachari... "The mamachari is a cultural icon, it’s the Japanese equivalent of the family station wagon. It’s the family workhorse used on shopping runs, for riding to the local station, taking the kids to school or picking them up from sports practice. Without it families around the country would be in a right pickle. "— Byron Kidd

0 Comments
May 11, 2020
Read more about the article You’re A Model. Say Cheese!
Image by Sergey Nemo from Pixabay
humor / insight / non-fiction

You’re A Model. Say Cheese!

So parents, be good role models for your children. The future of humankind depends on it. You’re tired and feel spent, I know. I’ve been there. Still, be good models... the rewards will come; and when they do you'll comprehend why there’s no other job in the world quite as rewarding as that of being a good parent.

0 Comments
May 7, 2020
Read more about the article Take One; Take Two
Photo by nrd on Unsplash
humor / learning / short story

Take One; Take Two

Remembering something similar that happened to me a very long time ago when I came to Japan, I roared uncontrollably with my own bout of laughter. Words got stuck in my throat and with more to do than to just wait for his mother to recover from the laughter, my young man hung up on me.

3 Comments
May 5, 2020
Read more about the article How to Use Compassion as A Tool to Connect
Image by truthseeker08 from Pixabay
insight / learning / non-fiction / Spirituality

How to Use Compassion as A Tool to Connect

Each of us is good at our core.  We come from different walks of life; we know about our rights, justice, and how to set boundaries. We also know that doing good deeds makes us feel good. But did you also know that this feel-good emotion arises from compassion?  We all came bearing compassion. But, we lost it? Let me tell you how to get it back.  

13 Comments
May 3, 2020