"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Exactly a month ago today I had the opportunity to do something else that fills me with JOY.…
You know what I like about a New Year? It always arrives in a timely manner with a new beginning. In 2019, we look forward to more sharing on SowtheHeart.com. There will be a wide variety of stories posted with…
Although I enjoy looking back, I do consider myself more of a forward-thinking person. The year 2018 was one of the most difficult of my life. Becoming the primary caretaker of two elderly and suddenly-ill parents meant quickly relocating and all…
I've always loved everything about Christmas. With the loss of my two parents nine months ago, this Christmas is quite different. Now, decades later, I am more closely relating to how my mother must have felt trying to make Christmas…
There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven”. ~ Harriet Tubman There couldn't have been a more opportune time than at the conclusion…
"Sanctuary, on personal level, is where we perform the job of taking care of our soul." ~ Christopher Forrest McDowell In rural Maryland there are an astonishing number of old churches and chapels. One of the most popular thought masters…
"Keep calm, go set and have a cup of tea," I said to myself after I hung up the phone. Oh my lucky stars! Right now I'm grinnin' like a 'possum eatin' a sweet tater! I've been invited and I've…
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I find myself thinking summer will be over any day until I look out the window and see few remarkable elemental differences. Unlike in my previous states of…
"Your heart and my heart are very old friends." ~ Hafiz She's the salt of the earth, I've often thought as I've spent time over the course of my life with my childhood neighbor, Marge. It's been many a year…
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~ Author Norman Cousins For an author, what better way to spend a birthday weekend than exploring Baltimore's treasured Peabody Library at Johns…