I think of my father more often these days. At sixty-six, like his father before him, he had a stroke and lost the use of the right side of his body. At the time I was only twenty-five, and while I admired the determination and perseverance he displayed throughout his…
View More Finding Courage in AdversityAuthor: Dorothy Sander
Sisterhood ~ A Woman’s Strength
In the last couple of days a comforting image has come to mind on more than one occasion. The car accident my husband and I were in ten days ago shook us to the core. Though we weren’t seriously injured, rolling over four times did a little more than addle…
View More Sisterhood ~ A Woman’s StrengthThough I May Never Know Your Name
My psyche, or perhaps more accurately my spirit is bereft and cluttered with the shattered glass and twisted metal that now lies far behind us in a desolate junk yard… small bits embedded in my skin a constant reminder. The sun now spreads glorious warmth across my shoulders as I…
View More Though I May Never Know Your NameRemembering My City of Ruins
It’s hard to fathom that it has been nine years since that fateful September morning in 2001. My experience of those moments had a profound and lasting impact on me as it has on so many others. It has not been easy to make sense of it all and I…
View More Remembering My City of RuinsHow to Avoid Sabotaging your Weight Loss Efforts
American women of all ages are obsessed with their bodies and how they look. I doubt there is one woman alive that has not been on at least one diet in their lives and most have been on hundreds by the time they reach fifty. The women of our generation…
View More How to Avoid Sabotaging your Weight Loss EffortsYou’re Never too Old to Follow Your Dreams, But you May have Lost Your Nerve
Just about the time I turned fifty all hell started to break loose in my life. My father died and my mother, almost ninety, needed attention. My kids were leaving the nest, 9/11 happened and our business tanked as a result. My husband had a heart attack and while he…
View More You’re Never too Old to Follow Your Dreams, But you May have Lost Your Nerve