Tag: dreams
The Art of Letting Go, an Excerpt from One Heart With Courage: Essays and Stories
We are proud to excerpt this wonderful One Heart With Courage: Essays and Stories from our friend Teri Rizvi Who is the founder and director of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of […]
A lesson on dreaming big from my daughter-in-law, Mark Zuckerberg, and a snake
My son’s wife, Kelley, has a unique gift. When she expresses a desire, even if it seems unattainable, it comes true. Like the time she wrote a list of her goals and included, ‘meet Oprah,’ […]
Do you dare to dream small?
Bucket lists are fashionable, with people grasping to fulfill lifelong dreams. I don’t know about you, but I am intimidated by some of these lists that look like a ‘to do’ list for overachievers. And […]
In My Head
Get up with a smile, my eyes glisten. I make decisions, Others listen. I write the History, my name is chanted. Everything’s possible, Permission granted. I’ve nothing to do with what I’m told. I conjuer […]
Library Work! It’s a Dream Job.
I work at the circulation desk at a public library. I recently had a dream in which one of our most challenging patrons apologized for being such a nuisance, then meekly paid all her fines. […]
A World Without Labels
Most of you know I am raising my beautiful and very intelligent, 13-year-old granddaughter named Samaya. She paid me to say the italicized so I could use her name in this article. Anyway, last week […]