Holidays, with all their work and frustrations and anticipations, are still special opportunities for family members to bring out the best in each other. Memories of those family gatherings are heirlooms of our lives just like the family china that was used to serve those special holiday dinners.

What goes around comes around, or so they say, and they also say that Friday the Thirteenth is just another day. Don’t walk under that ladder or don’t step on a grave or sidewalk crack, and if you spill the salt throw some over your back.

This book by Mira Kirshenbaum is "An Owner’s manual for the Heart.” A well known couples therapist and author, with over thirty years of experience, reaches out to readers with “a book to teach women to find true love AND to stay true to themselves. "You have the power to say NO to crummy love."

When you have children they often become the focal point of your life. Believe it or not, they often stay the focal point of your life for a very long time. Often children young and old have the same worries and concerns as you do and they may ask questions about "what will be" in their future...

How’s Your Perspective and Perception? Do you see things from only one side? In reality there is usually more than one side or perspective to every story. On the inside of the WINDOWPANE, a Hibiscus plant blooms, as on the outside of the windowpane a winter storm rages; what do you see?

This month’s Mantra is about Happiness. Sometimes it comes easily and sometimes it’s elusive like a flitting butterfly or a magical starfish drifting by in sea water. It’s often difficult to catch sight of it, but with persistence you might catch a glimpse of it and you just might catch it.

At Halloween we focus on magical and mystical, spooky and scary things. Well, relationships can be magical and can sometimes feel mystical and unfortunately are sometimes spooky and scary. Do you believe in magic? Is there magic in your relationship? Is it mystical; or is it spooky and scary?

Many things in the world are now considered upside down. Is Halloween considered by some to be a romantic holiday in our upside down world? Romantic Vampires and Glampires and sexy Witches now appear on the screen and in books and our minds. So is Halloween now seen as a new romantic holiday?

Are you familiar with the game played with the petals of a Daisy? As you pull each petal off of it you say he (or she) loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not. It’s a cute game but its not a very accurate way to decide if the person you love loves you. So how do you figure it out?

Who among us can resist a nice piece of our favorite cake? Having your cake and eating it too is often applied to wanting to have everything your own way while also appearing to be compliant in a relationship. This can be related to both things and actions. Can you have your cake and eat it too?