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

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.

Here's a little something to help you put things into perspective while you are trying to find your Christmas Spirit in the hectic moments of preparation for the holidays.

Holidays are conducive to remembering holidays from our past but they are also times that we should be creating the holiday memories of tomorrow. While I’ve had many memorable Thanksgiving holidays, the one I’m about to focus on is the one about to occur and an imaginary spoonful of thankful sugar.

Each of us is the sum of many colors, our true colors that lie below the surface that we don’t allow others to see. They are hidden there, both our darkest and our lightest and brightest colors, ready to come shining through. They are the colors that show who we really are when they break through.

Most of us at some time have done a connect-the-dot picture. What if it was a picture of your life? Could you connect-the-dots if you didn’t have a pencil or a pen? Each choice we make in our lives is like connecting one dot to another and the completed pictures tell the story of our life.

Seems like sometimes you must turn upside down and inside out, go through a maze, and up a down staircase - just to end up right where you started… before a NebNose interfered in your life … We all know one - a NebNose, who thinks they have a right to meddle in your relationships. Well, they don’t!

Procrastination is a funny thing that’s sometimes not too funny. If you procrastinate too long, if you wait too long, it might just be too late to say or do something important that you really wanted to do that might change your outlook on life, or the course of your life.

Play nice ghosts and ghouls, relationships that work have some ground rules: Be kind to each other! Don’t lie! Don’t cheat! It’s not only candy that should be sweet! Beware of ghosts this Halloween - Too scary to marry, too crazy to date, too strange to go out with, they could make you faint...