“Nos·tal·gia (n): A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone.” Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God Have you ever experienced a flashback to your younger years all from a scent that strikes your schnozola? My memoir writing began when I smelled…
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…
“The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.”— Anonymous The Samaritan's Purse Children's Heart Project is near and dear to my heart because I often consider what would have been my outcome if other's didn't care. As a heart patient…
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…
I remember singing those very verses in my childhood! In the autumn of my life, November still comes with a feeling of binding together and bringing comfort to home and hearth. Hearty feelings of kinship come when the largest contingent…
As summer winds down I am thinking about a narrative I posted on AllThingsFulfilling.com a few years ago about one of the most vivid memories of my young childhood. It involved setting up a lemonade stand with my twin sister and our…
"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…
The book you don’t read won’t help. –Jim Rohn Who remembers the milkman? I do! But, I've never yet met a milkman's daughter ... that is, until now! Evidently she's read my book Gift of a Lifetime: Finding Fulfilling Things in the…
June 18, 2018, by Sue Batton Leonard It was a providential day! Lower humidity and pleasant temperatures seemed to have been heaven sent after the heat spell that's been present in Towson, Maryland. The sun filtered through the beautiful canopy…
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." ~ Betty Friedan Remember when grandmothers were downright frumpy, dowdy and matronly? In previous generations, once men and women reached the age of retirement they passively laid…