Slow Down Your Moving Too Fast – Wouldn’t you agree baby you and me we’ve got a groovy kind of love…? How do these lyrics from Feelin' Groovy and Groovy Kind of Love apply to today’s relationships that often seem to fizzle out and bite the dust in record time?

Our relationship with our American Patriotic Holidays is also a relationship with those who served our country and a time to remember and honor their service and their love for all of us. Today I share pages from my book An American Holiday Patchwork about Memorial Day. Never forget to remember...

What’s in your mind? How do you nurture your body? How do you tap into your spirit and your inspiration and aspirations? How’s your relationship with yourself – with your own mind, your body and your spirit? Who is the real YOU?

Mothers have been depicted over the years in many ways - good, evil, self-serving, self-sacrificing, etc. No matter how you feel about your own mother on Mothers Day it's not a bad idea to acknowledge that you owe some of who you are, what you do, how you behave and who you become to your mother.

Some relationships just aren’t meant to be. Sad but true. Some couples don’t belong together and some friendships are flawed in some way and they may eventually fizzle out. Breaking up is hard to do but holding on to something that is gone may be even harder. How does the person left behind cope?

When Michael Jackson’s song BAD made the word BAD synonymous with the word COOL, that was pretty COOl – bizarre but COOL. But sometime since then the word BAD as in – BAD BOY and BAD GIRL has actually reverted to its original definition - the word BAD actually means BAD, which is, in reality, UNCOOL

How long can a person keep up the pace that it takes to keep dancing through the difficulties of life and its many relationships? Are you metaphorically dancing through raindrops; or dancing in the sweltering sun trying to get your daily to do list done? How fast can you dance?

St. Patrick’s Day traditionally is a day that we celebrate luck. It’s often accompanied by sayings such as The Luck of the Irish, Irish Blessings and stories about St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland back in the day. So how do these traditions apply to our relationships and this holiday?

Valentines Day Cometh – do you hear the sound of all the Hearts of Glass shattering all over the world? What makes so many people dread Valentines Day? I’m not really sure but maybe it’s driven by unrealistic expectations and ruined by reality arriving. Maybe one or maybe both people are to blame.

So - what’s your story? That’s a question that everyone has an answer to even if they say they don’t. Everybody has a story if they’ve been living their life - the single, the separated, the married and the divorced, and all the jesters and fools. So - What’s your story? Is it fact or fiction?