



HELPING OTHERS BOUNCE BACK IS WHAT SURVIVORS DO! It’s October and tiny town Trenton, SC has turned pink again. But this time it’s not in the peach orchards. This time it’s at the post office!!…

Here in South Carolina we don’t just have a little pollen in the spring, we have clouds of yellow pine pollen filling the air that dusts our cars, rims our ponds with bands of yellow and, if…

Spiked with a rainbow of colored markers, a bright blue bucket filled with golf-ball-size rocks propped open the door of our meeting room. Thankful for the reappearance of sunshine illuminating the curious doorstop and not…

What anniversaries do you remember? Hard on the heart to remember is June 6, 1944—D Day—but an anniversary not to be forgotten. Easier to recall is my memory of June 1987. We were stationedin Paris, France and invited to spend a weekend with friends at their mountain home in La Brigue, near the Italian…

How good are you at stuffing? I’m not talking about cornbread, nut, turkey or herb stuffing. I’m talking about emotional stuffing. You know, that embarrassing experience that still makes you cringe each time you think…

Has someone offended or rejected you and you need to know how to “shake it off “? I know I’ll probably get some blow–back for sharing this – but one of the things I do when I…